How to Set up a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme

If you wish to set up a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in your area, there are a few things that you'll need to do and some issues that you may wish to consider. This is a list of useful suggestions from the Streatham Septagon NHW who are happy to answer questions - feel free to e-mail them if you need more help. Read more...

Recently we've had a plethora of meter readers coming round to read various meters at our place. We became a bit annoyed when we had two people come round in the same week to read the electric meter so we queried this with our utilities provider and got an interesting answer.

Our particular utilities provider (one of the new breed that bundles utilities with phone, Internet, etc. together) informed us that only one company was authorised by them to do meter readings and no one else was to be coming round. At all. For any reason! Hmmm, interesting... Read more...