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Calls have come for CCTV and other measures to make a graveyard more secure after police are stressing they are not linking the two thefts from the Eastfield Cemetery in Peterborough. Emma Smith (25) and her family, who visit the Cambridgeshire cemetery nearly every day, had been left heartbroken when they found that two angels had been taken from the grave of her brother.
The public has been told to be on their guard about rogue roofing companies following problems with cold-callers in the Welsh county of Radnorshire. The pushy traders have been knocking on the doors of vulnerable people, said Powys Community Safety Partnership.
Signs warning people they were under police surveillance were described as something out of the novel ‘1984’. That is what Portsmouth city councillor Luke Stubbs evoked when he complained that the Beware, We Are Watching You sign was too close to the famous book which coined the phrase ‘Big Brother is watching you’. Police put up eight warning signs as a response to a series of criminal damage incidents in the south coast area.
A woman used a forged passport for seven years before being caught. Qamar Yasmeen went on to gain a drivers licence and find work under a false name after stealing an identity. Yasmeen was imprisoned, while investigators said the deception had devastating consequences on the victim, who has not been named. In 2007, Yasmeen travelled to Pakistan and got married using her victim’s name, sponsoring her husband so that he could return with her to the UK.
The bank holiday rush for the resorts is looming, but any snarl-ups will be hard-pressed to beat Chinese drivers sitting it out in a nine-day traffic jam. Vehicles are going nowhere in Beijing due to roadworks, which caused the logjam beginning in mid-August.
A boss of a Bridlington building firm was fined for not including for workers adequate toilet and washing facilities on site. The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted Bryan Ellis Brown, a partner in Bryan Brown & Son, of Flamborough.
The British Parking Association has reacted to the Government’s plans to ban wheel clamping on private land. The BPA statement contained these objections: "Drivers should be encouraged to comply with the conditions of private car park use. Everyone recognises landowners’ rights to control their land. If drivers trespass, there must be repercussions.
Detectives are still counting the insurance cost of a lightning smash and grab heist in which jewels worth several million pounds were stolen in London. A gang broke into a low-grade security entrance to access the De Beers store inside the Royal Exchange shopping area. The arcade, based around a champagne and seafood bar, is lined by jewellers and luxury goods stores which often leave displays fully stocked to encourage window shopping.
There will be an official probe into how a dangerous criminal was allowed to flee from custody not once, but twice. David Patmore broke out from a midlands open prison in April, was seized by officers after a rooftop stand-off, and re-sentenced in the northwest recently.
A bombshell almost literally dropped at a portable toilet after a cleaning worker found a crude bomb when on a routine service. The employee opened the door and spotted what she thought was a pipe bomb at a Tacoma Public Utilities transfer station in the USA, police said. Had it gone off, the bomb would have caused “considerable damage” to the toilet and anyone standing nearby, Assistant Police Chief Mike Zaro said.