Metal thieves steal ten garden gates (From Daily Echo)
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Metal thieves steal ten garden gates
3:08pm Saturday 28th January 2012 in News
THIEVES have stolen ten garden gates from Southampton homes in just three days.
It is thought they have targeted the metal gates to sell as scrap.
Now, police have urged people to hide away wheelie bins which thieves could use to transport their haul, buy gates with reverse hinges, security mark metal gates or have wooden gates instead.
It comes just weeks after disabled grandma Shirley Doyle’s wheelchair was stolen by metal thieves in Rownhams Road, Shirley, as metal thefts across the county are rising.
Gates were taken from the Shirley and Freemantle areas of Southampton on Wednesday, with homes in Seymour Road, Wilton Road, Darlington Gardens, Northam Avenue and Testwood Road also being targeted.
PC Jordan Williams, said: “The rise in metal thefts is due to the high prices being offered for scrap metal currently and we are working closely with scrap metal merchants to make sure they do the appropriate checks and don’t buy stolen metal.
“I would advise anyone who has gates or any other valuables outside their homes to try and secure them as best as possible to try and make them difficult to remove and prevent them from being targeted by thieves.”
Comments(12)
YankeeDoodle
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4:55pm Sat 28 Jan 12
Save the "another american wanting to jail everyone" comments...........t
y
Horse’s mouth
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5:53pm Sat 28 Jan 12
Horse’s mouth
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5:53pm Sat 28 Jan 12
IronLady2010
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6:35pm Sat 28 Jan 12
IronLady2010
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6:41pm Sat 28 Jan 12
IronLady2010 wrote:Let's be honest if my Gas Bill went from £15 a week to £2 I'd question it. Seems some thought shhhhhhhhhh keep quiet and are now paying the price. Well, half of it anyway.
Once again we can't comment on the Mosque article. Is the Echo being racist? I can think of no other reason for not allowing comments, afterall, most other articles allows comments.
I'm in the process of asking BG to half my bill for the past 4 years, bet I get no-where!
HillsidePaul
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7:33pm Sat 28 Jan 12
IronLady2010 wrote:The racism is all your own work. Plus (naturally) your deliberate distortion of the facts.
IronLady2010 wrote:Let's be honest if my Gas Bill went from £15 a week to £2 I'd question it. Seems some thought shhhhhhhhhh keep quiet and are now paying the price. Well, half of it anyway.
Once again we can't comment on the Mosque article. Is the Echo being racist? I can think of no other reason for not allowing comments, afterall, most other articles allows comments.
I'm in the process of asking BG to half my bill for the past 4 years, bet I get no-where!
It is not a case of The bill going down and everybody keeping quiet. The problem is the bills had been wrongly calculated from the change to metric units, which the customer had no way of knowing.
TEBOURBA
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10:10pm Sat 28 Jan 12
OSPREYSAINT
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11:05am Sun 29 Jan 12
Perroman
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12:37pm Sun 29 Jan 12
HillsidePaul wrote:Is it racist to ask the 1400 Muslims who use the mosque to stump up £7.15 each? No charity, no banks, just £7 of pure determination to keep it open!! Too much to ask? Sorry about that.
IronLady2010 wrote:The racism is all your own work. Plus (naturally) your deliberate distortion of the facts.
IronLady2010 wrote:Let's be honest if my Gas Bill went from £15 a week to £2 I'd question it. Seems some thought shhhhhhhhhh keep quiet and are now paying the price. Well, half of it anyway.
Once again we can't comment on the Mosque article. Is the Echo being racist? I can think of no other reason for not allowing comments, afterall, most other articles allows comments.
I'm in the process of asking BG to half my bill for the past 4 years, bet I get no-where!
It is not a case of The bill going down and everybody keeping quiet. The problem is the bills had been wrongly calculated from the change to metric units, which the customer had no way of knowing.
HillsidePaul
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1:26pm Sun 29 Jan 12
SotonLad
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5:51pm Sun 29 Jan 12
Thieves and wasters. Dont pay tax. Claim benefits. Scum.
Get real jobs and work hard like some of us out there!!
opera phantom
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7:46pm Sun 29 Jan 12
See Dodgy Denham is on the case.
Any chance of publicity and he is there
like a shot.
When he was asked on Meridian Yes or No to the question
"Do you support the strike"
All he did was waffle.
I have asked twice via e mail why he
he couldn't answer Yes or No and he
was to ignorant to even acknowledge
my e mail, letter alone reply.
Typical c**p politician .
Yet come an election they are all over
you like flies round dog poo
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