Officers will hand out the rock sweets, which bear the messages ‘Quiet Please’ and ‘Shush’ to drinkers

Police have bought 10,000 sweets to hand out to students to remind them to be quiet when they come home from a night out.

Officers will hand the rock sweets, which bear the messages ‘Quiet Please’ and ‘Shush’, to drinkers in Durham.

These will be reserved for busy nights in the city and handed out when officers feel revellers need a reminder to keep the noise down as they make their way home.

The idea follows complaints about rowdy students in residential areas.

Late-night noise is a genuine issue for a number of our residents and we hope that this initiative will make a difference.

Victims of burglary and other crimes are increasingly being offered the opportunity to meet the criminals who offended against them, in a controversial scheme aimed at empowering victims and potentially cut levels of re-offending among former prisoners

www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/panorama/2011/11/meet_the_burlgars.html

Effect

A teenage burglar wrote a letter to his victim, blaming the householder for the crime and saying he felt no remorse, police say.

West Yorkshire Police did not pass on the letter but released it to warn people about the dangers of leaving their properties vulnerable to intruders.

The badly-spelt letter says: "To be honest I'm not bothered or sorry about the fact I burgled your house. Basicly, it was your fault anyways."

or anywhere else in the UK.

http://www.police.uk.

You may need to be patient though, apparently the site is hugely popular and became clogged today.

The stats say that if you live on Glovers Court in Preston, you should be worried.

Two pakistani men have been convicted of grooming "young white girls" and Jack straw thinks the Pakistani community needs to get its act in order. (source)

I think the criticism he has recieved for stereotyping is besides the point and that he is right to discuss the issue as it needs to be discussed.

A man who robbed a takeaway driver of pizzas, cash and his mobile phone was caught after his mother let the victim into their house to call the police.

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He went to the first available lit window he could see, which turned out to be McManus's own home where he lived with his mother and brother.

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