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The Hindu: The State government has made it mandatory for public amusement centres such as clubs, swimming pools, dancing places, gymnasiums, billiard halls, and the like to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras inside and outside their premises for
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Council tax rise discussed as north Norfolk towns bid to save CCTV – 6 days ago @ edp24.co.uk:1 North Norfolk residents could be asked if they are prepared to accept a rise in council tax to keep CCTV in their towns. Businessmen unite to form trust in bid to save Newton Abbot CCTV network4
– 2 weeks ago @ thisissouthdevon.co.uk:52 THE clock is ticking to find a solution to keep the CCTV network running in Newton Abbot.
Teignbridge Council has decided it will stop funding the award-winning service next spring. .
trust: Jeremy Combe, left, and David Austin want to establish a
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Three people have died, hundreds of thousands of homes have been left without power and travellers suffered transport chaos after hurricane-force conditions battered Britain.
The Met Office lifted its amber warning as the heart of the storm blew away from Norfolk and over the North Sea, leaving a trail of destruction and disruption behind it.
Winds of up to 100mph had swept through the South West, South, South East, the Midlands and the East of England after first hitting land in the early hours.
Falling trees killed a man in his 50s from Harrow in north west London as he drove through Watford in Hertfordshire and a 17-year-old girl was killed as she slept in a static caravan in Hever, Kent. Neighbours said they came forward with chainsaws to help free Bethany Freeman after the 30ft tree completely crushed the home.
Some 300,000 homes suffered power cuts at some point, the Energy Networks Association said, with energy now restored to around 30,000.
Falling trees and other debris covering railway tracks caused travel misery for thousands of commuters, with trains and London Underground services suspended.
The port of Dover in Kent had to shut, more than 130 flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled and many roads were impassable due to fallen trees.
Debris falling on to power lines also caused a nuclear power station to automatically close down both its reactors, leaving its own diesel generators to provide power for essential safety systems.
The Environment Agency said there were 12 flood warnings in place across the South West, the Midlands and the East of England. There were also 130 flood alerts telling people to be prepared for flooding.
A falling tree destroyed three houses when it fell on a gas main and led to an explosion in Hounslow, west London.
An elderly woman was taken to hospital following the blast and three people were rescued by London Fire Brigade.
Station manager Matt Burrows described the scene of utter devastation found at the scene.
A double-decker bus rolled over in Suffolk, injuring the driver and several passengers. Witnesses told police the vehicle blew over at 8am in Hadleigh, rolling on to its side and coming to a stop in a field.
In central London, Whitehall was closed both ways between Parliament Square and Horse Guards Avenue after a crane collapsed on to the roof of the Cabinet Office.
A ferry carrying 1,000 people from Newcastle to Amsterdam was forced to return to sea after the storm caused officials to close the port of IJmuiden, near Amsterdam.
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Six people in our region have been arrested
David Bale131
Thursday, October 24, 2013
11:22 PM
Twenty-four people including six from our region have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) operation relating to child pornography.
The operation was conducted in partnership with constabularies in Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and the West Midlands police forces.
The Norfolk individuals who were arrested are from the Breckland, Norwich and Great Yarmouth areas, while two men from the Beccles area aged 43 and 61 were also arrested.
A Norfolk police spokesman said: Four people have been arrested and one person has been interviewed under caution, as part of an NCA operation, run in partnership with Norfolk Constabulary and the other regional forces.
The operation took place between October 18 and 24, with those interviewed suspected of being involved in the distribution of indecent images of children.
Those interviewed include a man in his 30s, a man in his 40s, a man in his 50s and two men and one woman in their 60s from the Breckland, Norwich and Great Yarmouth areas. All have been bailed pending further enquiries.
The operation saw 29 warrants executed across the six counties.
Those arrested are suspected to be involved in the distribution of indecent images of children.
Multiple people in positions of trust, as well as two registered sex offenders, were arrested.
The crime agency provided 30 officers to assist forces with searches and forensically examining technology that was seized.
During 2012, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) command estimated that around 50,000 individuals were downloading and sharing indecent images of children.
Andy Baker, deputy director of the agency s CEOP command, said: The possession of indecent images of children is a form of child sexual exploitation that requires no direct interaction with a victim, but causes considerable harm to those who are depicted.
The NCA will work tirelessly with partners, both within the UK and overseas, to ensure those who pose a risk to children are identified and where a crime has been committed, are held accountable for their actions .
Det Sgt Gavin Conder, of the Bedfordshire Online Investigation Team, said: This has been an increasing aspect of work in the last few years and one that is important to continue for the sake of children everywhere.
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Scratby, March 2013
LAUREN ROGERS161
Friday, October 4, 2013
5:30 PM
Volunteers fighting to save a stretch of Norfolk coast from being claimed by the sea are shocked that new laws could see their main source of funding financially cripple them.
Scratby & California Environment Group (SCEG), whose members campaign to save the beaches and cliffs north of Great Yarmouth from further erosion, must pay 150 for a scrap metal collector licence after Government legislation came into force on Tuesday.
Under the rules, scrap dealers and site operators must apply to their local council for a licence and, in the Great Yarmouth borough, pay 150 for a collector licence or 250 for a site licence.
The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013, which will be enforced by the police, it aims to tighten up the industry following an increase in metal theft.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council said it had written to all registered dealers ahead of regime change.
But the Scratby environment group, which collects scrap from homes in order to raise funds to keep going, said the law will hit them hard .
Chairman Chris Hogg said: Collecting scrap is our main source of income and we are already registered.
We re not raising huge amounts; we re talking something like 40 a month. Having to pay 150 for a licence will hit us hard.
When asked if the group a non-governmental organistion (NGO) rather than a registered charity would be exempt, Cllr Val Pettit, the borough council s cabinet member for environment, said: The legislation does not allow councils to make special exemptions for charities and NGOs, or to offer them discounted fees. However, the licence fees in the Great Yarmouth borough are set purposefully low far lower than many local authorities so they only cover the running costs of the new regime.
The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 is new central Government legislation, and local authorities nationwide have no choice but to implement it.
The definition of a scrap metal dealer under the act is deliberately quite widely drawn.
The council is responsible for enforcing the new regime, however the courts will ultimately decide in each case, whether an individual or organisation needs a licence.
Warning others to be aware of the changes, GYBC said a law now places a duty on a dealer, site manager, or employees with delegated responsibility to verify the full name and address of anyone they receive scrap metal from, and to keep a record of all scrap metal received or disposed of.
It will also be illegal to trade scrap metal in cash.
This legislation aims to make the industry more accountable and transparent by keeping tabs on what is being traded and by whom. It will create an audit trail which will help to deter crime and ensure reputable traders can compete fairly.
It will also help householders identify who the legitimate traders are, because all dealers issued with one of the new licences from the council will be checked for relevant past convictions, and must also have a waste carriers licence from the Environment Agency.
It is illegal to pass waste to someone who is not a licensed waste carrier, added Mrs Pettit.
Licences must be renewed every three years.
Existing registered dealers will automatically be able to trade without disruption or fear of prosecution from October 1 to 15, but cannot continue after this transitional period if they do not have a licence.
As part of the application process, the applicant will be asked to provide a Basic Disclosure certificate, which will reveal any unspent convictions on the Police National Computer (PNC).
Refusing to provide this would be grounds for the council to decline to proceed with the application.
It is an offence to carry on business without obtaining a licence, and anyone convicted can be fined at level five 5,000 on the standard scale, which will mean the fine could be unlimited when further changes in the law come into force later this year.
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- ^17 LAUREN ROGERS (www.edp24.co.uk)18
Subsidies for the Coasthopper bus could be slashed.
Furious bosses at a Norfolk bus company, which stands to lose 150,000 in subsidy for a service which connects King s Lynn with Cromer, have blasted the county council for not caring about the people of west and north Norfolk.
Under Norfolk County Council s 140m savings proposals191, the subsidy to Norfolk Green to run the Coasthopper service will be slashed by 75,000 in each of the next two years.
And bosses say taking that much away from the 225,000 a year subsidy could spell the end for the service, which first started in the 1990s.
Norfolk Green s operations manager Richard Pengelly, said: We do feel hard done by. The council s simple answer is that we should reduce frequencies and that s all they ve said.
Everyone knows that the majority of the population out here are elderly and the majority of them rely on public transport.
What are we supposed to tell elderly people who want to get to the health centre at Wells or to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at King s Lynn?
The county council is letting down the people of west and north Norfolk.
Mr Pengelly said Norfolk Green s managing director Ben Colson had run the Coasthopper at a loss each year, but believed it was important to provide a service.
He said: Every year we try to keep it running.
There will be no change in winter 2013 or in summer 2014, if the weather permits.
But after September next year, I just don t know.
The temptation is just to not run it.
Mr Pengelly said he hoped the service s customers would let the council and their councillors know what the service means to them.
He said he suspected part of the reason the Coasthopper was the only service singled out to lose its subsidy was because a large number of its summer users were elderly tourists, who use concessionary bus passes and the bill for reimbursing the operator for them has to be picked up by the county council.
The council, in its justification for considering the proposal said the level of funding used to support the service was high when compared to the rest of the bus network the council supports.
They said they would work with the bus operator to keep the impact to the minimum and that it could mean in the summer there was one bus every 45 minutes, rather than every half an hour, with one bus every two hours instead of every hour in the winter.
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- ^20 Norfolk County Council s 140m savings proposals (www.edp24.co.uk)21
South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon.
The region s MPs are joining forces with the Eastern Daily Press to back its Let s Get Connected campaign, which aims to ensure mobile phone users are better connected.
Yesterday, South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon became the latest to offer his support, describing how the mobile phone reception was outstanding in Tanzania when he visited the country with Voluntary Services Overseas and that if one of the poorest countries in the world could achieve good communication, so could Norfolk.
He was joined in his concern by Steve Barclay, MP for North East Cambs, Norwich North MP Chloe Smith, Broadland MP Keith Simpson and South West Norfolk MP Elizabeth Truss, who all backed the campaign.
Now the EDP is calling on readers to share their experiences of poor mobile reception and to tell us how it has affected their everyday lives.
Norwich South MP Simon Wright said: I strongly support the need for better mobile communications.
It is one of the most common complaints that is registered with me by businesses in the county.
Businesses need confidence they can connect in rural areas just as well as they can in urban areas and that is not always the case.
He said that even in the city of Norwich there were not-spots on some operators.
What I would like to see is more from the mobile operators in terms of transparency.
He also called for a better mobile phone signal on the train line between Norwich and London.
North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb said: In a rural county like ours it is really important, if we want to compete effectively with other more urban areas, that we get the same access to mobile phone signal as anywhere else.
It is achievable, but it needs to be a fast pace to get there.
Part of it is about planning and making sure the planning system is flexible enough to respond and we have tried to shift the planning system to make it more responsive to economic development. I think the planning reforms should make it easier to get the coverage up to the level we need.
The fire service has also experienced similar problems when they have to use the mobile network.
Roy Harold, deputy chief fire officer for Norfolk, said: For our operational function we use the airwave radio system which is separate from the public network and resilient. Having said that, we obviously don t know how many people don t call us or can t call us due to bad coverage.
Costessey Parish Council has also expressed concerns about a lack of broadband coverage for the Queen s Hills estate.
The council has written to BT about one of the cabinets carrying the broadband service for a new community hall in Poethlyn Drive, but is not due to be connected until 2015.
However, a spokesman for BT said no definite date could be given for the cabinet to be connected and 2015 was to cover for a worst-case scenario.
Have you had similar problems using a mobile phone?
If so, call reporter Dominic Bareham on 01603 772326 or email email protected22
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat RNLB Samarbeta.
Picture: James Bass
By MARK BOGGIS231
Saturday, August 31, 2013
12:28 PM
Police and health and safety officials were today (Saturday) continuing their investigations after a diving trip off the Norfolk and Suffolk coast ended in tragedy.
A man in his late 40s, from the London area, died yesterday after he became unwell during a recreational diving trip.
A Suffolk police spokesman said: A man who died following a diving incident off the coast yesterday is thought to be 49-years-old and from Brixton in London. He was airlifted to the James Paget University Hospital (in Gorleston) following the incident about 17-miles offshore yesterday afternoon (Friday, August 30).
A second diver brought ashore by Gorleston lifeboat was taken to the James Paget for assessment but was later discharged.
The drama unfolded at about 1pm yesterday, after the dive boat had left Lowestoft yesterday morning for a recreational diving trip.
Coastguards were alerted by the operator of the Raider V dive boat, after one of the divers became unwell and had to make an emergency ascent.
It is understood that he may have suffered a heart attack, although the cause of death is still to be ascertained.
After being given emergency CPR, a RAF search and rescue helicopter from Wattisham was called to airlift the man to the James Paget, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A second diver suffered suspected decompression sickness and was taken to the James Paget by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat Samarbeta.
The police spokesman added: Suffolk police officers attended Hamilton Docks in Lowestoft to meet the dive boat, that docked around 6.30pm, and inquiries continue this morning into what happened.
This will include an examination of the diving equipment used, that is believed to have belonged to the man that died, and a post mortem examination to determine his cause of death.
Officers have already spoken to the other six people on board the boat at the time and will be getting full accounts from them.
As is standard procedure the death is currently being treated as unexplained pending the outcome of the post mortem and these preliminary inquiries, but at this stage there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances
A spokesman for Humber Coastguard said they were contacted yesterday by a dive vessel reporting that one of their divers had surfaced and was in difficulty.
The incident occurred 17 miles offshore and the decision was made to send the RAF search and rescue helicopter from Wattisham as this was the quickest way to get the casualty to safety, the spokesman said. The Gorleston RNLI all-weather lifeboat was also requested to launch to assist with the transportation of the dive buddy, particularly in view of the distance offshore.
A spokesman for the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat confirmed they were called out at 1.20pm to assist in the recovery of two diving personnel from a diving support vessel situated 20 miles north east of Gorleston Lifeboat shed.
The spokesman said: On arrival at the scene, one of the divers, who was suspected of having a cardiac arrest, was airlifted by helicopter.
The second diver, who was thought to be suffering from decompression sickness, was taken back to shore by the Gorleston lifeboat and then transferred to the James Paget hospital.
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