MORE taxi cabs in Corby will be fitted with CCTV cameras in an attempt to cut the number of attacks on drivers.
Several black cabs in the town are already fitted with cameras and now funding has been made available for between 12 and 15 more to try to protect cabbies.

In recent months there have been a number of attacks on taxi drivers in Northamptonshire, ADVERTISEMENTincluding occasions when drivers who have… Continue reading

POLICE have released CCTV of a suspect they want to question about a nightclub attack which was sparked by a row over a test of strength machine.

Gareth Fitzsimmons had been using the games machine on which players pay £1 to thump a punch bag three times in The Liquid and Envy nightclub, St Peter Street, Blackburn.

He beat the score set by two men and they turned on him, police said.

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Transport for London (TfL) has begun a trial of CCTV cameras on buses that relay real-time images to a central control room.

The six month trial will be on 21 buses on an undisclosed route in north London. The real-time images will be monitored by TfL and the Metropolitan Police.

“If this trial is successful then we will consider rolling out the system on other routes as part of our campaign to… Continue reading

IMPROVED surveillance cameras are to be installed throughout South Gloucestershire in a crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour.

The equipment will be provided through a £300,000 cash injection from South Gloucestershire Council, which wants to have state-of-the-art CCTV cameras covering areas where local people have complained about bad behaviour.

Areas already covered will have systems upgraded and money will come from the Home Office to replace Thornbury’s system with a brand… Continue reading

Motorway police have had to deal with two women spotted walking down the central reservation of the M6.

The women, twin sisters from Sweden, ran in front of oncoming traffic after wrestling with the police.

Both women have since recovered.

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The footage shows a masked man trying to smash the bank’s window with a sledgehammer while the other three watch.

Unable to smash the glass, the men give up and escape empty-handed in a maroon Laguna estate, which was later found abandoned and burnt out.

The attack on the Lloyds TSB happened at 9.15am in Withington, Greater Manchester.

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Aston Villa and West Midlands Police were yesterday continuing their search to identify the thug who struck the assistant referee Phil Sharp with a coin in Saturday’s draw with Portsmouth at Villa Park.

Villa said the person responsible would be banned for life for cutting Sharp’s forehead and are confident CCTV footage will help pinpoint the culprit in the Trinity Road stand.

Police and security staff are looking at the footage, and… Continue reading

THE ‘TALKING’ CCTV cameras in Redditch town centre could be scrapped next year if they fail to prove their worth, the leader of Redditch Borough Council told The Standard this week.

Tory Coun Carole Gandy said she was still to be convinced the system, installed in May at a cost of around £25,000, was providing value for money.

“The ordinary CCTV cameras in the town centre are working well, but I think… Continue reading