Lock up your vehicles and guard your computers

I received these messages from Neighbourhood Watch. Make sure your vehicles are secure!!

Operation Handbrake and Lighthouse are operations to identify unsecured properties and vehicles.

Over the past week we have found a large amount of vehicles that are not locked and one has been found with the keys still in the vehicle, whilst carrying out a number of checks on vehicle in the Sleaford area on an evening.

There had been an increase in theft from motor vehicles in the Sleaford and Ruskington area's over the last week, so could we please ask that you make sure your vehicles and properties are all locked correctly.

Please make sure you have removed any high value items from your vehicles to a place of safety. Also at this time of year please make sure all Christmas presents are out of sight and away from thieves eyes so we make it as hard as possible for them!!

Message sent by

Patrick Welby-Everard (Support, PCSO NC36 Sleaford Rural South, Sleaford Station)

This is a message from PCSO Craig of Sleaford Town Centre.

Over night from the 15th to 16th December, there have been a number of thefts from insecure vehicles and garages.

Please contact Lincolnshire Police on 101, if you have seen or heard anything suspicious and ensure that all vehicles and property are locked with valuables removed or left in secure places.

 Also

Message sent by


Gill Finn (Police & NHWN, Community Safety Officer, Lincolnshire)

Microsoft Windows Internet Scam
Once again, we are getting reports from members that this Internet scam is again in Lincolnshire.
Scam Details
You receive a phone call stating that you have corrupt files or viruses on your computer and that you should allow access, after making a payment, to enable the caller to remove these files.

When you pay the fee, the caller simply hangs up after not actually doing any updates to your computer.
Please do not allow anyone access to your computer unless you have actually asked for assistance. Once you allow remote access, the caller will be able to copy all the details that you have stored on your system without your realising.

May I also take this opportunely to wish you a Merry Christmas.

 

Neighbourhood Plans? In Holdingham?

The furore,  in the press and on Facebook, over the plans to build many homes, alongside  the London Road, has left the impression that people have no control. Well maybe: but that isn't what the Localism  Act and Neighbourhood Plans would indicate.

Try this site: Neighbourhood Plans.  Will we, as a community be allowed to? And where would the money come from?

See also: Sleaford Neighbourhood Plans

Sleaford and the Twelve Frauds

The police are getting humourous as Christmas Approaches. Outside of their normal serious and dangerous work. 

The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has compiled a list of twelve frauds that the bureau suspect criminals may use during the festive period. Please find attached information relating to different frauds and ways to protect yourself:

1) Online Shopping
2) Postal Fraud
3) Auction Fraud
4) Holiday Fraud
5) Electronic "E" Cards
6) Ticketing Fraud
7) Phishing Emails
8) Social Networking
9) Cash Point Fraud
10) Voucher Fraud
11) Card Not Present Fraud
12) Mobile Payments

If you have been a victim of fraud, now or in the past, it is important you report the matter visit Action Fraud website www.actionfraud.police.uk or tel 0300 123 2040.

Diesel Thefts: watch your tank!

I was warned months ago that this type of theft is on the increase and the dangers of parking in Lay-bys.

Here is recent police message:

FOR THE INFORMATION OF ALL FARMERS, BUSINESS USERS OF RED DIESEL FUEL.


On the evening of Sunday 25th November two males were stopped on the B1188 in a Renault Laguna R943SLW in blue the two males in the vehicle are not local people. The vehicle contained several 25 ltr drums of diesel that has clearly been stolen from somewhere. Both males are currently assisting the police with the enquiry.

Have you had red diesel stolen over this weekend? Have you reported it to the police? Have you checked your vehicles/tanks since this weekend?

If you have had diesel stolen please report that matter to the Police. The two males are still in custody and it would be of a great help to the officers involved in the matter if it can be closed with a good result. IE a charge against the two offenders.

Keep Laughing Holdingham! Its the only cure!

I get regular jokes and famous sayings which I realise are popular!

Hope you like these - maybe Sleaford needs them to forget the ASB>

I thought about an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the Nuts?




Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts.



Well, after some heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with the answer to that question.

Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby; and here is the reason for my conclusion:

A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "It might be nice to have another child."

On the other hand, you never hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts."

I rest my case.

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Mark Twain



Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress... But then I repeat myself.

Mark Twain


I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

-Winston Churchill


A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw


A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

-G Gordon Liddy


Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University



Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.

-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)



Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

-Ronald Reagan (1986)



I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

-Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!

-P.J. O'Rourke


In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

-Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

-Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

-Mark Twain (1866 )

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.

-Unknown

The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.

-Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

-Winston Churchill



The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

-Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)




There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.

-Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.

-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)



A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.

-Thomas Jefferson

Sleaford Teacher Training

Sleaford : a Top Place to Train Teachers. I was pleased to see the article in the Sleaford Standard:


Academy to become training centre


With the Grammar School, High School, and all the Primary Schools etc, in Sleaford and District it is something strong to to build on. Who knows: it may start to spread beyond our shores so that the British Culture is re-ignited and adds to the image the Olympics gave the Country. Unlike the trash advert recent exposures have delivered.

Who knows: we may become international!!

Holdingham & Sleaford Recent ASB

Here are a few reports from last week-end. It is that time of year again!

There have been a few incidents over this weekend which we are appealing for information about.

• At approximately 20.30hours on Friday 2 November 2012, the front door window of a property on Tennyson Avenue, Sleaford (Incident 478 02/11/2012 refers) There were also eggs thrown at a property on the same road at 21.10 hours on Sunday 4 November 2012, (Incident 427 04/11/2012 refers).
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• The wing mirrors of two parked vehicles were kicked off sometime overnight Friday 2 - Saturday 3 November 2012. One of the vehicles was parked on Castle Causeway, Sleaford (Incident 92 03/11/2012 refers) and the other vehicle was parked on Westbanks, Sleaford (Incident 96 03/11/2012 refers).
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• At approximately 0300 hours on Saturday 3 November 2012, a group of youths were seen causing damage to properties, paving slabs and plant pots on Greenfield Road, Sleaford (Incident 204 03/11/2012).
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• At approximately 20.30 hours on Saturday 3 November 2012, a group of youths were witnessed setting off fireworks on Boston Road Recreation Ground, Sleaford. Police attended to deal with the youths but they had already left the area (Incident 403 03/11/2012 refers)
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• If you have any information on any of the above incidents or saw anyone acting suspiciously in the area, please contact Lincolnshire Police on the non-emergency number 101, quoting the relevant incident number. Alternatively you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Sleaford Neighbourhood Policing Team