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I can tell from the heightened activity on this website that lots of you are getting ready for some weekend DIY. March has been this website's busiest month since we launched the site nearly 3 years ago, with 40,666 visits across those 31 days; 16% higher than the same month last year. I can also…

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We all know that for well over 160 years the police service has employed dogs to assist them in all manner of tasks, including tracking and bringing down criminals, sniffing out drugs and explosives and being at the side of a police officer when engaged in public order events. Horses too have…

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Thanks to Nuneaton and Bedworth Neighbourhood Watch Association for bringing the following scam to my attention: Over the past couple of days a number of telephone landline numbers in Warwickshire have been called by persons purporting to be calling from Microsoft Windows. They open the…

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In the Irish Herald online today there’s a story about the Garda’s decade-old anti-burglary operation known as ‘Operation Fiacla’. The news article…

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I've been fishing for police news stories this morning and found no less than six forces across the UK warning about shed and garden thefts. For example, Bracknell Police (part of the Thames Valley Police Service) are featured in yesterdays' edition of online GetReading. Inspector Dave Bryan is…

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