Christmas Tins Appeal

Age Concern Peterborough - Christmas Tins Appeal


NHW in Peterborough has been asked to support the above appeal. This appeal has run for several years now which helps give a little bit of Christmas cheer to older people who otherwise might not have anything special for their Christmas Day meal. The people who receive these bags of goodies are normally on their own, lonely and often unable to get out to the shops regularly.


If you would like to donate anything to the collection please contact me. I am going to a collection point so could take some with me then.  Alternatively if you wish Bridge Street Police Station is the central Peterborough Collection point if you are able to drop off your donation of tins for this very worthwhile cause. No donation is too small!
Thank you.


(C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch Peterborough UK Tel: 01733 345581 Broadcasters direct call ISDN 'down the line' 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & APT All Press Enquiries Julian Bray 01733 345581

Andrew Neil on The Daily Politics on Voting Rights for Prisoners

You may not have seen this, it was on BBC1 at lunchtime today, and basically Andew Neil decided to launch a couple of massive broadsides at an ex-prisoner who was on a video link from Hull.  If you are nervous or easily offended please do not watch the video.  The gentleman was convicted of manslaughter using an an axe and made himself a cup of coffee whilst his victim died. He served over 21 years. He is now campaigning for the rights of prison inmates to have a vote. I've included this on the Park Farm Website as a reminder of why we campaign constantly to keep the neighbourhood watch going and to keep our residents safe and secure.  




(C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch Peterborough UK Tel: 01733 345581 Broadcasters direct call ISDN 'down the line' 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & APT All Press Enquiries Julian Bray 01733 345581

Stanground Co-Op Caught in Underage Booze Selling Sting

Helping your community. Some mistake!

The Co-op store, in Southfields Road, Stanground,  has been hit with a booze ban over Bonfire Weekend after being caught selling alcohol to underage teenagers twice in three months. 

The store was caught selling alcohol to the youths during covert Police and Peterborough City Council test purchasing operations on July 16th and September 3rd. New legislation  passed in July gives authorities new powers to act swiftly if a licenced premises, store, supermarket or pub breaks the “two-strike” rule and is caught selling alcohol to youths twice in three months.  The store, which is run by Anglian Regional Co-operative Society, is in an area once subject to ASBO youth assembly anti social behaviour restrictions.

The ban starts at 9am on Friday and lasts until 9am on Sunday....

A shop worker selling alcohol to underage drinkers can be fined up to £5,000 while failing to ask for a valid ID can carry a fine of up to £20,000 or six-month jail-term.

Npower & The Football League £2m Community Boost...



Word reaches us that Npower and The Football League have today 2nd November announced the launch of 'Home Town Heroes', a new community initiative that aims to put the power into the hands of the fans.

The £2m Home Team Heroes initiative - which will be run over the course of the three year sponsorship - will ask communities around the UK's 72 Football League grounds to vote on how this money should be spent, in order to make the most impact in their local area.

Communities can choose from one of three projects for children:


- A 'respect' training workshop for ten year-olds run in schools with a focus on team work and citizenship

- Football skills training for 4 - 6 year-olds run by the club's community coaches

- Improvement/clean up of a local park into a more football friendly space



The public will have until the end of December to decide and then each Football League club will work with npower to implement the project their fans have selected, before the end of the season. The 72 clubs will be supported in this initiative by The Football League Trust which oversees the League's community and youth development programmes.

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Fans can cast their votes by clicking onto the npower website, texting; filling in postcards at their local Football League club or one of npower’s touring event stands in the local area; or by logging onto their club’s official website.


Volker Beckers, RWE npower's CEO, said: "This scheme is all about giving power to the fans. As a new sponsor, we didn’t want to come in with a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Instead, we’re asking the communities around each club to vote and tell us which option suits them best."


Greg Clarke, Chairman of The Football League, said: "Football League clubs are an integral part of their local communities, demonstrating that football has the power to make a difference to peoples’ lives. Whichever project each community votes for - be it respect workshops, football training or the improvement of local playgrounds - our clubs will be actively engaging with local children to encourage them to get involved in football."


(C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch Peterborough UK Tel: 01733 345581 Broadcasters direct call ISDN 'down the line' 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & APT All Press Enquiries Julian Bray 01733  345581

SaferPeterborough? Yes We Can.....

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Goose

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Goose as community safety strategy manager introduces us to the revamped SaferPeterbough Partnership

TACKLING CRIME IN PARTNERSHIP



SaferPeterborough is a community safety partnership made up of several local organisations working together to reduce crime and lessen the fear of crime in our city, ensuring Peterborough continues to be a place where people feel safe to live, work, visit and invest.


It has a specific focus on tackling some key areas of concern they are:


• Serious acquisitive crime
• Anti-social behaviour
• Domestic abuse
• Violent crime (including alcohol-related crime and disorder)
• Sexual offences
• Road safety
• Hate crime
• Arson
• Substance misuse

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 The partners include Peterborough City Council, NHS Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, Cambridgeshire Police Authority and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Probation Trust. 

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Goose, as community safety strategy manager for the SaferPeterborough partnership, oversees projects and initiatives ranging from ensuring Safer Schools officers can resolve issues with young people, tackling anti-social behaviour to substance misuse. The projects extend to dealing with theft and burglary crimes through a new considered scheme that jointly manages and interacts with people who commit the most crime.


Chief Inspector Goose is also responsible for what is termed 'embedding justice' and introducing tighter licensing/ alcohol controls in the neighbourhoods. An essential part of the work is devoted to providing practical sympathetic support to victims, paying special attention to those who are vulnerable.  These will include people who have probably suffered long term domestic abuse and incidents of hate crime.


 “Quite simply I help deliver solutions to city crime issues by co-ordinating activity undertaken by the statutory organisations that make up the partnership and our voluntary sector colleagues. Together we believe we have truly made a difference to the quality of life in our city.


“For years each organisation had concentrated on its own individual issues. Everyone worked hard but crimes are still being committed, leading me to consider what difference we have truly made.  As a result, we now look at the causes of crime as well as dealing with the symptoms. This does not mean going soft on criminality. People have to take responsibility for their own actions and face the consequences, but unless something is done to deal with the problem it will just occur over and over again” he added.



(C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch Peterborough UK Tel: 01733 345581 Broadcasters direct call ISDN 'down the line' 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & APT All Press Enquiries Julian Bray 01733 345581

Cash strapped PCC spends £175,000 on old Woolworths Building



PCC's Santa arrives early with £175,000
gift for London Landlord.


Cash strapped Peterbough City Council is spending £175,000 on renovating the former Woolworths building, a property they do not own and PCC will not benefit from rentals received, so the cash rich American owned retailer TK Maxx can move in. The news was greeted with mixed feelings as BBC Peterboroughs Breakfast Show broke the news this morning although reports say gaff prone MP Stewart Jackson (annual MP's expenses currently around £27,000) had let the cat out of the bag and tweeted the news some months earlier.

Although TK Maxx’s UK store numbers in Europe are growing, the fashion retailer’s US parent company has reported a dramatic profit loss for the first half of the year. 

Profit at TJX Europe dropped from just over $34 million (£21.7 million) in the first half of 2009 to $7.9 million in the opening six months of this year.

Like-for-like sales at TJX Europe, fell four per cent in the second quarter, although total sales rose from $511.6 million to $528.2 million. These figures were reported despite TK Maxx opening 11 new stores across Europe in the last three months alone, with one of them located in the heart of London’s busy West End region.

US parent company TJX Companies - which owns American brands such as Marmaxx and HomeGoods - saw net sales for the second quarter rise to $5.1 billion and its international store portfolio increase by 33.

It's unclear why TJX Europe has seen such a significant reduction in profits, although foreign currency exchange rates were said to have had an impact.  A statement from TJX Companies said: “Changes in foreign exchange rates affect the translation of sales and earnings of the Company’s businesses in Europe and Canada into US dollars for financial reporting purposes.

“In addition, for accounting purposes, ordinary course inventory-related hedging instruments are marked to market at the end of each quarter. Changes in currency exchange rates affect the magnitude of these translations and adjustments, and can have a material impact when there is significant volatility in currency exchange rates.” 

Despite the profit slump in Europe, President and CEO of the TJX Companies, Carol Meyrowitz, said the business remains confident about delivering profit increases in the long term.

The discount store claimed it will bring at least 100 jobs to the city, but this is yet to be confirmed as jobs will depend on sales volume. The Bridge Street store plans to open in the Spring and optimistically believes it will see an estimated 20,000 shoppers pass through the store every week.

 TK Maxx, Woolworths’ administrators Deloitte and Touche and the unit’s distant landlords LaSalle Investment Management, the latter (who logically should have properly maintained and updated the Bridge Street building) will directly benefit from the £175,000 of council funding being spent before the store opens on the ground and first floor of the four storey building in the Spring. It's not clear if the PCC expects to get the money back or is just reliant on business rates generated by a part occupied building.

From their website:  LaSalle Investment Management is one of the world’s leading real estate investment managers with 30 years of experience.  We manage approximately $40.2 billion of public and private equity real estate investments. Our diverse investor base includes public and private pension funds, insurance companies, governments, endowments and private individuals worldwide.

(C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch Peterborough UK Tel: 01733 345581 Broadcasters direct call ISDN 'down the line' 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & APT All Press Enquiries Julian Bray 01733 345581

DISTRACTION BURGLARY ALERT

Carol Aston, Community Safety Unit reports:


Please note the following which has been issued by colleagues from other areas of Cambridgeshire:


A team of men are possibly linked to four recent distraction burglaries in Norfolk and other recent crimes along the North East coast - the story they consistently use is being that of water board representatives investigating after a gas explosion.



During May,  a distraction burglary in Littleport, near Ely - then on the following day 26th May there were five more in Sawston and Cambridge. The descriptions of the two offenders and the story they used is similar to all and the intelligence is they could try this on in Peterborough.




The descriptions:

Male 1: approx 25 years old 6' tall with jet black hair down to his ears, clean shaven, no piercings or tattoos seen. He was wearing black military style black jacket, black trousers and black leather trainers


Male 2: 30s pale appearance 6' tall thick set heavy build with brown brushed back hair - wearing light coloured jacket and grey gloves.

Male 1 was the one seen mainly by the victims


The vehicle used is being driven on false cloned plates - a white Ford Focus with a 58 registration plate - this is a cloned vehicle but there is also the original uncloned vehicle being driven around legitimately with this registration plate, police are aware.


Please spread the word and be aware. Keep an eye on elderly and vulnerable people. If you see anything suspicious call POLICE immediately.


Carol Aston
Community Safety Unit
Northern Division
Cambridgeshire Police


Tel 0345 456 456 4 ext 4417
e-mail:  carol.aston@cambs.pnn.police.uk



(C) Park Farm Neighbourhood Watch Peterborough UK Tel: 01733 345581 Broadcasters direct call ISDN 'down the line' 01733 555319 ISDN Codecs G722 & APT All Press Enquiries Julian Bray 01733 345581