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It seems like a number of you were so convinced about the story I ran yesterday, featuring Marlow's Mums Against Delinquency and their CCTV equipped pushchairs, that 48 of you clicked the link to find out more about this little wheeze I put together for April Fool's Day. Late yesterday I…

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My thanks to Imaan Williams, 1st Watch Coordinator, Neighbourhood Watch Hide Tower Scheme, for passing on this information from the Victoria Business Improvement District. It seems that there's been a noticeable and recent increase in people tendering counterfeit bank notes in central London. In…

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Waldringfield is a small village situated on the west bank of the RiverDeben estuary in Suffolk. It is four miles from the historic market town of Woodbridge and eight miles from Ipswich. The village is surrounded by farmland and lies within the Suffolk Coasts and Heaths Area of Outstanding…

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14 Mums living in Marlow, Buckinghamshire have volunteered to take part in a unique crime prevention project, dubbed ‘Pram Watch'. Marlow's local crime fighting group ‘Mums Against Delinquency' have agreed to have miniature IP cameras installed into their babies' prams and…

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For those of you who don't subscribe to our Newsletter or haven't otherwise seen a copy you can now access it on this website at the link below. So I don't become a nuisance I only publish a newsletter every two months or so. Each one includes information about the website and our Home Security…

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I've talked about lock (cylinder) snapping on these pages several times before and have recommended that we upgrade our lock cylinders to the new Kitemarked 3* type. BBC's Watchdog programme last week highlighted the problem again (which is welcomed), but as I was about to put a link to the…

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