Blaenau Gwent council in private litter warden trial

A council is to use a private security firm to issue fines to people dropping litter or not cleaning up after pets.

Blaenau Gwent will use wardens employed by XFOR, which already works with four English local authorities, to issue £75 fines for a trial six-month period.

The wardens will wear body cameras to record encounters with people for health and safety and evidence reasons.

Both XFOR and the council will receive an income, with the council employing two dog mess wardens with its share.

The council said it received hundreds of complaints about street cleanliness.

XFOR currently works with local authorities in Enfield, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire and Maidstone and can issue up to 200 fixed penalty notices a month in the area it operates.

Under the Blaenau Gwent scheme its wardens, along with management and support staff, will be based in council premises at Abertillery, with workers recruited from the local area.

Households in Blaenau Gwent will receive a letter in the next few weeks.

The council said it had already taken steps to tackle the problem.

These include issuing fines via its own enforcement officers, increasing patrols and surveillance in highlighted areas, sending out letters and putting up more than 300 dog bins around the county borough.

There are also plans for a further 250 bins over the next five years.

But the council's John Hopkins said more needed to be done.

'Zero tolerance'

"Our enforcement officers are employed to carry out a number of different roles and so are unable to completely dedicate their time solely to fixed penalty notices," he explained.

"By working with XFOR we can adopt a cost neutral, high profile, zero tolerance approach to catching the people responsible for dropping litter and letting their dogs foul and sends out a strong message that this type of behaviour is just not acceptable."

XFOR's Michael Fisher said: "Littering is an expensive problem for local authorities. The money spent on street cleaning could be redirected to other schemes in the borough.

"We have developed a scheme - which is already in place with a number of local authorities - providing enforcement officers who patrol the streets issuing fixed penalty notices to offenders."

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Security guard robbery in Bothwell

Police are checking CCTV images in a South Lanarkshire village after a security guard was robbed at gunpoint.

The guard was targeted as he came out of the Clydesdale Bank in Main Street, Bothwell, at about 11:00.

The robber got out of a charcoal-grey Ford Focus and threatened the guard with what appeared to be a firearm.

The guard was told to hand over the box he was carrying before the robber got back into the car, which sped off in the direction of Uddingston.

The guard was not injured but left badly shaken.

Local accent

Police said the description of the suspect was "limited" as he had his face covered up.

He is described as about 5ft 9in tall and spoke with a local accent.

Det Con Jim Conway, from Strathclyde Police, said: "I would appeal to anyone who may have been in Main Street around the time of the incident to get in touch.

"It's possible that someone may have noticed something a little out of the ordinary and their information could assist our inquiry.

"Any information or knowledge about this crime or the suspects could prove to be significant and I would urge people to contact us."

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T-shirt clue in Eastwood Tesco shooting inquiry

Police investigating the shooting of a security guard have released details of a T-shirt and sports bags which may have been used by the offenders.

The guard was shot in the leg during an armed robbery attempt outside the Tesco Express store in Nottingham Road, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, on 22 July.

The items were recovered from a stolen car believed to have been used by the offenders

The guard was filling a cash machine at the store when the attack happened.

The items include a black French Connection T-shirt with the slogan 'lucky fcuk' printed on the front, and two drawstring sports bags.

They were recovered from a stolen black Audi Quattro S3, which was found at Kingsway Gardens in Hucknall shortly after the incident.

Police said one of the sports bags is black and grey, and has the Nike name and logo printed on it in white. The other is black and has no logo, but has a 'B Magazine' label stitched along one side.

Security firm G4S and Tesco have offered a reward of up to £10,000 for the arrest and conviction of those involved.

Police are looking for three black men in connection with the incident.

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Armed robbers target Cobham cash machine

Armed robbers wielding a baseball bat and a Samurai sword have attacked two security guards at a cash machine.

Kent Police said a substantial amount of cash was stolen in the robbery at a service station on the London-bound A2 at Cobham on Friday.

The robbers were thought to have used two vehicles which were later found abandoned in Gravesend and Hawley.

Officers said that one of the guards suffered bruising and the other was shocked but had no visible injury.

Det Insp Ian Dampier said the suspects initially drove a Mercedes van which they abandoned in Cobsdene, Gravesend.

The pair got into an Audi RS4 Quattro which was later found in Alfred Road, Hawley, near Dartford.

Both vehicles are being examined by forensic experts. Anyone with information is asked to contact the force.

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