It's that time of year when many of you will be packing your bags for that well-earned holiday. This packing lark is often started a week or more earlier to ensure that everything is remembered and then we sometimes forget what we did and did not pack and have to go searching for it, untidying the…

I've been watching the odd episode of Break in Britain Series 2 on iPlayer – repeated from September last year. In each episode the presenters visit the scene of two burglaries and interview the victims. The local police crime reduction officer is then asked to assess the security of the…

A couple of weeks ago (while I was on holiday) the police in Croydon, in south London, provided some very sensible advice to users of Gumtree following a number of robberies across the borough in which sellers had property stolen after agreeing to meet the buyer. These robberies occurred on 19…

Website activity Well, my two plus weeks' holiday, the Queen's birthday and Brexit certainly had a negative impact on my website's visitor numbers in June, which were down by 6% compared to the same month last year. On the day the referendum results were announced the daily visitor number…

The following information has been provided by Action Fraud The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro begin on 6th August 2016 and as of late June, you will be able to purchase tickets from the Rio 2016 ticket offices. Purchasing from an unauthorised seller or a ticket tout could leave you out of pocket;…

I've just come back from a wonderful two weeks stay in Kalkan in south-west Turkey. We flew back on the same day as that dreadful terrorist attack on Istanbul's main airport, Atatürk Havalimanı. Fortunately for us we were using the very small regional airport in Dalaman for our journey…