Neighbourhood Alert

Telephone Scam using Premium Rate: don't fall for them!!

We have received a report of telephone calls being made in Lincolnshire from premium rate telephone numbers.

 

Scam Details

 

You receive a call that is disconnected when you answer the telephone call.

 

When you attempt to ring the number back, you are charged a very high premium rate telephone call charge.

 

Please do not return any telephone calls from numbers that you do not recognise if the call has been disconnected before any verbal contact being made. Numbers starting with 074 or 075 should be treated with caution.

 

You may not be aware of the charges until you receive your next telephone bill.

 

 

 

To report or gain further details on current scams, please contact Action Fraud

 

www.actionfraud.police.uk or ring 0300 123 2040

What is Sleaford About? Do we know?

 Photo taken 4 years ago before development

You would think that, with all the plans doing the rounds, that there is a tangible economic reason that will benefit the area? Well, in concert with other organisations it would seem that this is not necessarily so!

I picked up this very intellectual argument on Centre For Cities. Its objective (the C for C Organisation I mean)  is to develop and help promulgate ways to revive our Cities. The themes are similar to fast growing areas also such as parts of Lincolnshire.

Fine words but a lack of basics maybe. Cities, Suburban, and Rural Areas for that matter, didn’t get where they are for no particular reason. They grew, with incoming migration, because of the minerals, skills and nature of the land. Maybe those basics haven’t been adhered to in recent years as migration has occured for other reasons

What Centre for Cities is now worried about is that all the power is in London and is lamenting that it ought to be more regionally based. More local control to put it in a nutshell.

 

So I put in my three pennorth.

In reality the whole system is skewed away from local control. The finance and political power resides in London. Only when local areas develop their own local qualities " industry, products and services" that have international acclaim will it be reversed. Unfortunately for one reason or another energy, manufacturing and other industry (including tourism perhaps) has largely disappeared and gone abroad. 

Get that back and we might reverse things.

Ditto Lincolnshire! and Sleaford!

Bikers Riding on Play Areas

I received these messages today. This from the Alert messages.


Over the past few days we have received some reports of vehicle anti social behaviour in Sleaford town.  The first report relates to vehicles congregating at Boston Road car park and causing problems with loud music and inconsiderate driving. 

The second report is of a moped riding round the playing field at the rear of Almond Walk, Sleaford.

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It would seem that some, or all, of the offenders are teenagers! That is my obseravation and not aprt of this police message.

Advertising Publication Scam Alert
Please be aware that if you receive either an email or telephone call from any persons stating that they are acting on behalf of Lincolnshire Police relating to requesting a donation for advertising space within any social or charity publication this is NOT in partnership with your local police.

If you have verbally agreed to make a donation, send a written letter to the address shown on the paperwork and cancel the agreement within 7 days

 

Remember: Police Forces do not make requests for donations to the public or businesses.

If you have been contacted over the last few days please provide us with the information quoting incident number 195 4/6/2013 on 101.

Holdingham District Council Election Approaches

http://www.sleafordstandard.co.uk/news/local/by-election-for-nkdc-s-sleaford-holdingham-ward-1-5163452

The big news this week is that Peter Haysum has retired as District Councillor for the Holdingham Ward.  Peter has been Mayor of Sleaford three (3) times since 1974 and has had a fantastic career as a local "Politician". He has worked tirelessly for the Town and especially for Holdingham.

It will be interesting to see who the Candidates for the vacant seat are. He will be a hard act to follow.

ASB News in Town

Amy Michie (Support, PCSO NC37 Sleaford Town, Sleaford Station)

Good Evening from the Sleaford Neighbourhood Policing Team.

A Silver Audi A3 has been damaged whilst parked on Tennyson Avenue, Sleaford between 08:30 and 17:00 hours on the 24/5/13.
The extent or type of damage is not yet known.

Incident 141 29/5/13 refers.

Please report any information to Lincolnshire Police on 101.

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 Incident 401 26/5/13 refers to a report of a group of youths driving around Homebase Car park on Mopeds being very noisy and causing a disturbance to Local Residents.

Portas shopping design: for Holdingham and Sleaford?

I have been watching Channel 4 programme the other night about Towns talking to Mary Portas  with a view to replenishing their High Streets. The same ideology could also apply to some parts of Sleaford and maybe even Holdingham!

But we can’t all be TV stars and get communities participating like some!

 Comment and reaction was given widely in the media and here is one from the Telegraph: Mary Portas on Channel 4 TV.  Whilst I was watching out of curiosity it was also because there appears to be a diversion of interest within Sleaford.

 

Some are transfixed by her – others are openly hostile.  The fact that she is a TV personality certainly gets Communities backing schemes they would otherwise reject:  and of course we always love the publicity “don’t we?” and the last thing we want is to be seen as NIMBY’s and being anti-democratic on TV.

 

It is interesting to watch this philosophy being put across. it makes a change from the pessimists who say we cannot stop the advance of the Superstores or from the Internet.