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Jun
2020
By Calvin at 15:22 GMT, 4 years ago
Dear all It\'s been a very long time since I published anything new on this website and so I thought Ishould give you an update. At the beginning of 2018, having lived and worked in London for almost 40 years, my wifeand I decided the time was right to fulfil our ambition to sell up and move back…
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Jul
2018
By Calvin at 12:45 GMT, 6 years ago
Some of you may recall my news item from 4th August 2015 about a dubious crime prevention magazine apparently published by the National Crime Prevention Association. Here's the link to my blog post and you'll see that a whole lot of people have left comments; one of which is just two months old.…
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Jul
2018
By Calvin at 08:49 GMT, 6 years ago
Stephen Armson-Smith, crime prevention expert and friend from Essex Police, has just published this useful list of websites where you can find independent crime prevention advice. Here it is and what he's got to say about the various sites: Sources of Crime Prevention Advice on the Internet We are…
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Jul
2018
By Calvin at 08:35 GMT, 6 years ago
I've said in previous blog posts that this year was going to be a bit mental with house moving plans and so on and that I wouldn't be able to spend much time on the website, because of the upheaval. Well now I can add a further upheaval to my life as on Tuesday this week I became a Grandad for…
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Jun
2018
By Calvin at 09:51 GMT, 6 years ago
Back on 3rd May I announced that Julia and I had put our house on the market in order that we could move down to Cornwall (via Devon). At the time we knew that the market was depressed and this concern was confirmed by a much lower number of viewers than would normally be expected. Fortunately one…
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Jun
2018
By Calvin at 17:37 GMT, 6 years ago
With celebrity comedian Michael McIntyre getting robbed three days ago in North West London the focus is once again on London's masked moped robbers. So it didn't surprise me when I received emails from the BBC and some of this website's friends asking me if I had any advice. Unfortunately I was…
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