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SmartWater Technology Ltd has been awarded Star Status accreditation in the 2010 Best Companies Survey, which singles-out the UK’s most exceptional employers, and is voted for by employees themselves.

 
Network Rail is to deploy new technology to help fight one of the biggest causes of disruption to train services - the theft of railway cables. In the West Midlands alone, 462 trains were cancelled and others were delayed by nearly 74,000 minutes over the last year.

A parking meter repair man has admitted to stealing more than £70,000 from pay and display machines as he worked on them.

Police figures show only one theft on two of Wellingborough’s industrial estates in a year since introducing a property-marking product. SmartWater was rolled out across 95 per cent of the businesses on the town’s Park Farm and Finedon Road Industrial Estates in December 2008 and crime has since dropped dramatically.

A SmartWater Employee has donated more than 250 soft toys from her 15-year collection to a Children’s Hospice charity.

The Environment Agency is using sophisticated detection technology to thwart illegal waste-dumping criminals.

Whitehaven’s Neighbourhood Policing Team is going out into the community in local villages and rural areas.

Crime fighters have been handing out advice and security measures in a bid to combat rising burglaries over the summer.