Security Advice – Tip of the Day
The research, commissioned by esure home insurance, revealed that a worrying fifth of Brits (20 per cent) keep the keys to their old home after moving but less than a third (30 per cent) change their locks when moving into a new home. The research also reveals that an alarming one in five homes (20…
New MLA Handbook Launched With an introduction from a member of parliament, articles from the association of chief police officers and the insurance industry all promoting the MLA and various articles about the MLA itself, the MLA’s new format Handbook has just been released. This significant step forward in professionalism takes the Trade Directory to…
CAMDEN police have warned that posting travel plans on social networking sites can make people’s homes a target for burglars. They say that not only can messages such as “still packing my case” or “just landed” indicate when you are way, but thieves can find addresses by cross referencing surnames with online address databases. Detective…
Figures released this week have revealed the most burgled postcodes in London, with Stoke Newington leading the way. The research conducted by MoneySupermarket examined 3 million applications for home insurance across the whole of the UK and filtered the data to show where people had made claims for burglary. This data revealed that houses in…
Alexandra Locksmiths have recently fitted a security gate to a property in Muswell Hill, London N10. Our customer wanted a bar gate fitted at the side of his property, as there was a gap between the two houses and he thought that his side kitchen door was an easy access point and felt vulnerable as…
Leon Williams, 37, of Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, was one of the gang who smashed their way into the jewellers’ Finsbury Park home late at night, tied up and tortured the couple then ransacked their store in Edmonton. Leon Williams was jailed for 10 years (May 3) at Woolwich Crown Court for conspiracy to burgle,…