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13 of the busiest stations on the Tyne and Wear Metro will be fitted with London Underground-style gates, in an attempt to reduce fare dodging which costs about £1m a year in lost income.

An automatic gate and bollards are considered to be the solutions of choice for securing access to Witney’s Tower Hill Cemetery and in the same time granting free passage to visitors, without the need for a previous appointment, a news report in the local media reveals.

Work has started on revamping Brighton’s main rail station, the deadline for the £5m plus project being set for the end of 2013, a

In a bid to revamp the access system to their stadium, Premier League football team Stoke City is set to install electronic turnstiles throughout the stadium, a news report in the local media has revealed.

The Greengates Bowling Club in Bradford has been recently hit by a bout of metal fence thefts, which saw seventeen panels between 4ft and 5ft being stolen from the club’s premises in two raids, a news report in the local media reveals.

The Tesco Express on Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds, will soon have a security bollard installed in front of it, following an incident last month, when a car drove right through the wall.

One of the most important new trends in car park access control solutions is represented by fully wireless systems, which enable users to enter and exit without having to get a ticket or swipe card of fob.

Felix, a former stray cat adopted by staff at the Huddersfield train station, actually has it better than most human passengers, since it’s actually got its own VIP “ticket barrier” installed, in order to make it easier to travel back and forth inside the station.

Revamp works on the Woking Leisure Centre, in Surrey, is now complete, the new-look facility now including one of the largest gyms in the county with 131 exercise stations.

Bollards installed around the Goldington Green park in Bedford, Bedfordshire, didn’t prove to be strong enough in order to prevent a family of travellers from ripping them out and setting up camp there, a news report in the local media reveals.

A raid at a petrol station near Ely in Cambridgeshire failed after thieves could not break through the front door. A photograph of the damage to the door after the emergency services had cleaned up shows there was no security device blocking the immediate route to it. A simple retractable bollard would have been the perfect deterrent. The location is close to home for Tensor’s Cambridgeshire base at Hail Weston, therefore we would have had one installed in no time.

Pensioners in Middlesbrough have asked the council for help on tackling anti-social behaviour affecting their back gardens, demanding the installation of a high, metallic fence, instead of their current, low, wooden one, a news report reveals.