Episode 18 Crimewatch Roadshow

This morning on Crimewatch Roadshow. Knocked out. Do you know the man

who left his victim with a broken Hello and welcome to Wednesday's

Crimewatch Roadshow. Just three days left, for you to help police

fight back against crime. Your calls really do make a difference,

so keep watching. Coming up. Can you help identify the thug in the

white hat, who attacked a man for his mobile phone. Getting heavy

over metal. We are with the police cracking down on the multi-million

pound trade in stolen metal. And the Doncaster DJ left so badly

injured in an attack that his children were frightened to look at

him. The rest of the Crimewatch Roadshow team are out on the road.

They are covering every day crime that matters where you are. Today,

they have moved to South Yorkshire and to Sheffield, and they are at

the city's train station and Dave is at the 1918 to Leeds I can see

in the background? Morning. Where ever the trains are heading we will

stay put for the next 45 minutes. We are at the tail end of the rub

hour which has run smoothly however, as we all I know metal thefts have

caused disruption to tens of thousands of rail travellers, later

in the programme we will be looking at what is being done to counter

those. Also this morning I am join on the road by Nicola Rees: Good

morning. It is not just a problem on the railways, theft of metal

manhole covers is becoming so prolific they are being replaced

with plastic ones like these. Interesting. Right. Let us get

under way with this. It is a shocking attack on a man outside a

Fight Club in Doncaster. And here is what happened. -- nightclub..

my on the side of the jaw. That is as much as I remember. Taff I was

done. The worst thing was my children not wanting to come near

daddy. That hurt more than any punch. That really hurt. Doncaster

town centre, it is the early hours of the morning on Sunday 19th June.

Just over a year ago. Dean had been doing the job he loves. DJing and

hosting a club night at which his brother had been a guest. At the

end of the night, deens brother was ready to go home. I had been at

work at the nightclub where I am a DJ, stroke manager, I had gone to

walk my brother outside, end of the night, we had been cleaning up. I

had gone to take him to the taxi rank. I got to the door and he said

"I'll be fine." This CCTV shows a cab pulling up. The driver told

police the occupants wanted to use a cash machine. Stop here I need to

get cash out. They asked to be taken to Rossington, which is quite

a localised part of Doncaster, that is located out near the airport.

Believing the the cab was free, Dean's brother tried to get in.

There has been a misunderstanding at that point, that the taxi is

available, and that is then led to a verbal altercation. The situation

rapidly escalated. At that point one of the lads jump out. He punch

mid brother. Dean came out of the club to check on his brother, and

saw the fight. He rushed to try and break it up, banging on the windows

to alert people inside the club. tried to jump in the middle of them

and basically did just that. As he intervened the driver pulled away.

A second man then jumped out of the cab, and ran towards the group. And

through a vicious punch. At that point, I lost consciousness. It has

been struck to the right side of his face very hard, from a male who

has taken a run up, and then punched him while he has not been

looking so, he is unguarded and he has suffered a basically a clean

break to the right side of his jaw. He has been knocked out at that

point. The nightmare continued as the man attacked his brother,

knocking -- knocking him out too. couple of minutes later my brother

was laid down, I knelt over him, and at that point, the worst bit

for me, at that point, I, there was no movement from him. He had lost a

bit of blood out the back of his head. All I could think was how do

I tell my mum, how do I tell the children, I thought he was dead.

His injuries wer only superficial and he soon recovered. Dean,

however, had fractured his jaw and needed hospital treatment. He is

still suffering from the effects of the attack. Worst thing for me, was

the following morning, when my children saw my face. Looked at me

and said "Mummy, why does daddy look like a monster?" they did want

to be near me, that hurt me more. I could only think why would somebody

do this to anybody. I have never hurt anybody in my life. All I try

to do is make people laugh. For somebody to do that to me, it is

out of order. This is not somebody who has got involved in a fight and

come off second best. This is somebody has been assaulted for no

good reason. That was a very nasty attack. I am joined by Paul

Dickenson. It was a busy street even though it is four clock lots

of people saw it. Yes silver street in Doncaster, it is four clock in

the morning, June 2011. It would have been getting light and there

would have been people round at this time. So anybody who saw this

you need them to come forward. It is June last years you have to get

it cleared up. Yes, there have been people who saw what happened,

people who know what happened. taxi driver has come forward who

has been able to give you useful information. Yes, he told us that

the taxi that he was driving had been asked to be taken to

Rossington, it is a distinct area between Doncaster and boar tree, it

stands on its own. You believe the five young men who got into that

cabin colluded the one who carried out this attack. We do, yes.

Rossington is a small village, a small place, there is a good

possibility this guy is going to have spoken to people about what he

did. Yes, we have seen the description of him, a white male,

in his early 20s, an athletic lad. He will have been out the next

night, in his own village no doubt bragging about the fact he has

knocked two people out. Not a thing for most to brag about. But he may

have done that. Thank you. You have seen the the story, you know what

happened, if you know this guy, please come forward now, he has to

be turned in before something like this happens again. The numbers are

on the screen. Thank you. Time now for today's wanted faces, can you

help the police find out where they R first up is this man, Simon

Ronald Kinney. Detectives have Devon and Cornwall Police want to

speak to him in connection with conspiracy to supply Class A drug,

he has a scar on the top of his right leg and is believed to be

station at bed-and-breakfast accommodation. Next, is this man,

Amro Mohamed Khalil, he failed to appear on court charges of indecent

assault back in September 2004 and hasn't been seen since. He wears

glasses and usually has a black moustache he has connections to the

Blackpool area but could be anywhere. Let us know if you have

seen him. Detectives in South Wales want your help to find this man

Daniel Michael Colin, he was sentenced to ore four years for

offences of conspiracy to defraud and released from prison early. He

breached the conditions and is being recalled to prison. He has

connections to the Hampshire and Cardiff area, and has a Welsh

accent. This man Paul Anthony Alban, is our last wanted face today.

Detectives many Merseyside want to interview him in connection with an

aggravated burglary in which a knife was produced. He is said to

have bad skin. If you recognise him or any of the wanted faces please

get in touch. The numbers are on the screen. You can email us. Let

us go back to Nicola. Thank you Rav. For the next three days we will be

working with the South Yorkshire Police force, of course today we

are in Sheffield, that is the only city in the patch, but it is an

area that stretches far and wide, from the rural Peak Districts to

the urban tonnes of Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster. Let us look

at some of the work the police do here. For South Yorkshire Police it

is all about keeping the community safe. I am very fortunate to have

some smashing staff, who just love going out there and locking up the

criminals. Like many forces, South Yorkshire faces a big challenge,

one of the ways they are trying to cope with reduced budgets is to

give new powers to Police Community Support Officers. PCSOs aren't paid

as much, and they aren't usually involved with front line policing.

But in South Yorkshire it could be they are about to see more of the

action. Their role will be shared with the police officers in terms

of delivering a local service. I don't see them taking over from the

constable, I do see it very much as a team activity and something where

they can complement each other. force believes in taking the

community strategy direct to the people. This afternoon, we are

going to tackle issues would burglary. At this centre in

Rotherham pensioners are taught through role-play how to protect

themselves against the growing me a nas of doorstep crime. You have

seen us working up the road. We have a problem with the drains.

South Yorkshire is all about modern networking, too, they didn't see

any of last summer's riots and they partly put that down to the use of

social media. The South Yorkshire force has brought itself right into

the 21st century, in fact they use smartphones and Twitter to keep in

touch with the public. This is the force's Twitterfeed. 10,000 new

followers were added to its twitter accounts following the riots.

kept up-to-date with current issue what the teams have been up to, so

it is a good way of feeding back to members of the public what we are

doing. With a major city and three large towns, vast rural areas and a

population of 1.3 million, the force faces major challenges, which,

they say, they are rising to. Fb Given some financial constraints

there are real channels there, but I think we are up for it, and I

think we can do it. -- real challenges there. Well, there is

another police force that is kept busy here, that is the British

Transport Police. One of the big challenges they face is combating

metal theft. Not only does it cause disruption to services it has cost

the industry about �43 million, over the past three year, Mick Daus

is from the British Transport Police. You must have seen it all?

Yes, seen since my time on the cable team, I have seen the

detrimental effect those involves in stealing cable from the railway

has on the network. It is cables we are talking about, that they are

targeting. Yes. In taking this they are putting themselves at risk.

they are not trained to be on the rail way there are is 650 volts

going through some of them. It is dangerous. They don't know whether

it has electricity going through it north. No, that is the dangers they

are putting themselves in. talked briefly about the delay, how

widespread are they? We have had, the Network Rail have had terrible

problems dealing with the delays, once the the cable has been cut the

trains can't run through certain sections. So what are you cog about

this? I work as part of three teams on the North East area, one in Dahl

torpbgs one in Doncaster and within in Leeds, we are here to deal with

those involved in the cable theft and the issues related to that.

can't patrol all the miles of track yourself, you rely on people

reporting something suspicious to you. Yes, persons, if members of

the public see the persons involved are, burning cable, or see people

acting suspiciously to give us a call and we will deal with that.

You would rather have a false alarm, than people say I will leave it.

Absolutely, our job is to respond to any call, if it is innocent we

can deal with that. Thank you. So, problem of metal theft causing

major delays costing a fortune Burke the railways aren't the only

ones suffering from this. Churches The value of scrap metal has

rocketed. As a result, 300 tons of it is being stolen across the UK

every week. South Yorkshire's links with the steel industry means that

places like Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham have always

had more than their fair share of scrap-metal yards, but it also

means the county has become a hotbed for metal thieves. To try to

hold this epidemic, South Yorkshire launched a voluntary scheme in

April as part of the nationwide operation Tornado. Reputable yards

now require photo ID before they are able to buy any scrapper. What

is Operation Tornado? It is part of a national operation that looks at

the requirement to produce identification at the point of sale.

On the Weybridge now you will see that there is a vehicle presumably

about to sell metal. If you look at the sign, when somebody now sells

Mable, they have to produce identification, either a passport,

driving licence, and supported by a utility bill. How much of the

difference does this make? We think it is making a tremendous

difference. It means that the criminals are put off selling metal

at legitimate dealers. These yards are regularly checked by the police

and that keeps them on their toes. They realise that they need to

comply with the law. Otherwise, they get more regular visits by the

police. Many of the utility and railway companies are targets of

metal thieves. In these clips from Yorkshire Water, it is suspected

that this digger was still then to be broken up for scrap. -- was

stolen. And this British Transport police footage shows a cable fee

former railway. -- cable FIFA or on the railway. Metal that has become

such a priority that as soon as an ally in -- an alarm is sounded,

helicopters are scrambled. Using thermal imaging, they assist

officers on the ground to locate stress Busters. South Yorkshire is

investing heavily in catching the metal thieves. Every night, a

specialist team is sent out to patrol known crime zones. We are

conducting patrols because of a recent spate of cable thefts. We

are looking for any offenders. It is a big problem for the police in

South Yorkshire and across the country. It is the early hours and

the officers stop a flatbed truck. It is out so late it has aroused

suspicion, but on this occasion there was no illicit metal being

carried on board. We have seen this vehicle pass us on the opposite

direction. It has a trailer and it is a typical vehicle used by

offenders. On this occasion, it turns out that it is completely

innocent. Later in the programme, we will be in the London borough of

Newham or a joint police and council crackdown on traders who

could be breaking the rules. You saw him in that report, Bill

Hotchkiss is in charge of tackling scrap-metal theft in South

Yorkshire. We have spoken about the voluntary theme of a law will get

tougher? Yes. It is going to change in October. The cash-based nature

of the industry will be removed. Anyone wanting to sell natal won

the to be paid by cheque or electronic transfer. -- sell metal

will need to be paid. So that is creating a paper trail? Yes. It

allows us to support everything we have done, to trace the transaction,

and it allows us to remove the cash-based nature of the industry

which is an obvious attraction to criminals. Do you believe it will

make it easier to catch these crooks? They are notorious, bending

the rules, getting round the regulations. They are good at

bending the rules but we have our own investigation techniques which

we can amend accordingly. Our strategies will change accordingly.

The very fact that the cash-based nature has been removed creates a

paper trail for us in terms of the cash transfer. It seemed as -- it

is seen as low level theft and it is difficult to prove. It is.

People believe it is low level fat because of the value of the metal.

Anyone who takes a length of cable that may or may be meant for -- and

may only be worth �30, it may have had a massive impact. It could

cause delays and damage and repair costs. We present that evidence to

the court and by preventing the evidence in the way that we do, but

allows the court to have a better picture of the impact of the crimes

of that anyone found guilty can be sentenced accordingly. Back to the

studio. Still to come: The unwelcome house

guests. Do you know this pair who strips

this Rotherham House? -- stripped. And a pilot scheme enforcing

regulations on metal dealers. think we can go on now. Before that,

keep your eyes peeled for our first lot of crooks cough on CCTV. --

caught on CCTV. A garage in South Wales, Caerphilly,

South -- March this year. Two men arrived to put fuel in their car.

The guy in the cannot fly shorts does not blend in. He fills of the

car with �66 of petrol but he is not paying for it like the rest of

us. They just drive away. The registration plates are false so we

need names for this pair of petrol will for us.

-- pilfers. Cambridgeshire, September last year. This man

wonders will local library. Some car keys have been reported missing.

The camera picks him up walking down the street. Watch the car as

the indicator lights flash on. That has caught his interest. He gets in

the car and drives off. Later, the keys and the car were reported

stolen by a disabled woman. Get the motor running on this case, by

naming this man. Eight do-it-yourself store in

Londonderry. Last year. October. This man has chosen a drill worth

�200. Even though staff challenge him, he still walks out with the

loot. He ends up dumping the droll, but police still want to talk to

them. -- drill. If you know his name, tell us who he is.

If you recognise anyone there or know anything about these incidents,

you will know what to do. Give us a call. Dave has some interesting

CCTV footage. Yes, we have indeed. All the way

through the morning we have been talking about metal theft. We have

CCTV pictures of an extreme example. They were captured as two men broke

into a house in Rotherham. As they enter the property, the two scope

out the joint and work out a plan of action before getting down to

the job in hand. They take the radiators off walls before carrying

them to the kitchen and stacking them up. Systematically, they go

through the house, stripping the radiators from every room. It looks

like they think they have got enough. It is time to get the

looked out of the house. One of the man jumps on the kitchen surface

and climbs out of the window. His accomplice starts handing in the

radiators. -- handing him. The thieves have cost thousands of

pounds of damage to the property for only a couple of hundred quid.

Amazing. I am joined by the investigator on this. How come you

had cameras and the house. -- cameras in the House? The thieves

were targeting metal in the were targeting metal in the

property, so we set of the cameras. Is it entrapment? It is not. We are

trying to force policy. It is a legal requirement. In addition to

CCTV, you had another weapon, some of the stuff. It is called

Smartwater. How does it work? Smartwater is one of the number of

products that uses a forensic DNA marking system. So if it is on a

product... This allows us to individually identified any

property. We can train it back to the owner. But putting it under

ultraviolet light, you can see the colour. So you can market under

these conditions. How long does it stay on? It can stay on skin for

two weeks, depending on personal hygiene. But we cannot see nothing

on this jacket until we put the light there. See that Karine? That

has been there for six years. Quite amazing. When you get a suspect in

after a crime, you can put them under an ultraviolet light. And we

have them in every custody suite. have them in every custody suite.

The first guy, the man in the red T-shirt. He is heavily tattooed on

Paul Farnes. And the other guy? has a tattoo on one arm. He is

wearing a T-shirt which is quite easily identifiable, which says

"Beer monster." It looks like he has a support bandage on his elbow.

We have made inquiries with local plumbing firms and they have said

it is an injury, and particularly it is an injury, and particularly

to plumbers. Hopefully with these to plumbers. Hopefully with these

to plumbers. Hopefully with these to plumbers. Hopefully with these

clues, we will bring these two to clues, we will bring these two to

book. Time for some updates. We saw you

footage of a man who went into someone's house while they were in

the back garden, taking money and jewellery and a handbag. As a

direct result of one of your calls, the man was arrested and he has now

been charged by Nottinghamshire police. An amazing result. It goes

to show you that your calls do count. Yesterday, we featured the

case of a pensioner from Leeds who had �700 stolen from her house by a

man pretending to be a policeman. Many of you rang to tell us how

moved to work by her plight. The officers have spoken to her and

while she is touched by your kindness, she said she would rather

the money went to charity. As a result of the information you gave

us on the case, detectives are looking into a strong new lead

including a potential nine. Also you may remember this woman

from yesterday's programme. We showed a CCTV footage of her using

someone else's credit cards to obtain �13,000 from various banks.

Police described it as an excellent response. They are now looking at

potential names and locations for the women.

And Vincent Toohey, wanted for questioning in connection with

conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, you have given the officers strong

new information which they are looking into.

Officers from the British Transport Police would like your help to

catch a group of thugs who went to extreme lengths just to steal one

mobile phone worth just �50. mobile phone worth just �50.

It is July last year and this unsuspecting passenger is waiting

for his train at Greenwich station. He is looking at his mobile phone

when he is approached by a gang in a white flat cap. He grabs him by

the throat and drags him around the platform. His mates surround the

attack. To try and escape the fight, the victim jumps onto the track.

This could have been deadly. The group leave the station, taking the

victim's mobile phone with them. victim's mobile phone with them.

victim's mobile phone with them. victim's mobile phone with them.

property, so we set Who are they?

British want

want to identify these four in connection with this violent

robbery. If you recognise any of them, please let us know. And we

are joined by DCI Bob Mahoney from the National mobile phone crime

unit. What we saw is pretty shocking but mobile phone theft and

crime is on the rise. Phones these days are very attractive for

thieves. There were a lot of money on the resale market. Especially

smartphones, which go for several hundred pounds. Up to �1,000 on the

black market. The figures say that 330,000 phones are stolen a year.

Is it because of the value? What can people do to stop them being a

. We recover thousands of phones every month, in order for us to

give the phones back to the people who have lost them, it is easier if

you have registered it on a website. You enter your phone details, or

other personal property and the police in the UK can do a simple

check and we can reunite you with your phone. What details would you

need to put on it? Each phone has a specific identifier calls an IMEI

number. This is contained in the phone, usually under the battery or

sometimes if it's a smartphone you can get the number by entering a

simple code. This code, it would make the phone unique, similar to a

chassis number on a car? Yes, that's correct. We will take this

phone here, so, with this one, so, I dial the number, so I dial, if we

look on that camera, so star, hash, oh, no, star, hash, zero 6. Hash. I

am doing it upside down. We have a number you can see. That long

serial number, is unique to this phone. So if I was to put my

similar card in this phone, would that stay? That number would stay.

It is not reliant on the similar card. It is the registration number

of the hand set. What else can people do? My pet hate is when you

see people, they get off a train or bus, or sitting on the bus and they

Ron the phone, texting, doing whatever, and they are leaving

themselves wide-open to have this stolen. They might as well have a

handful of 20 pound notes. What can people do? Just be aware of who is

round you, quite often you can see somebody hanging about, if you have

any suspicion, wait to use your phone somewhere safe. If you are in

a pub or shop, people have handbags open and the phone is on the top.

Zip your bag up, don't make your phone visible. That is something

people do I have sat on trains, seeing people with their bag open

and your phone popping out. Keep it on you all the time. I totally

agree that. Now, let us go back to Nicola in Sheffield. Thank you Rav.

Now, police would really like your help to track down and stop a man

who has been exposing himself to young schoolgirl, the incidents

have been happening up the road from here in Rotherham. There have

been six in total since March last year, the most recent a month ago

involved an 11-year-old gir. Her mother has agreed to speak to us,

we have had to disguise her identity to protect her daughter.

She went to school as normal, five minutes away, for or five minutes

away. A man had been at the bus stop with her, and exposed himself,

and done an action, to her, and that she was, she was frozen with

fear, that was her own words, she asked him to stop, he just made, he

was accusing like it was nothing. I think the hardest bit was she

couldn't put it intoed words, she has tho do... Sort of an action, of

what he had done, because she didn't understand it in words. That

was really hard for me. Even still to this day, she can't walk

anywhere near that area, we have to go with her, so yes, she is very

distressed. Well, Claire Mann investigating these incidents. Tell

us what you can about them? Yes, there has been six incidents, that

have occurred, all have occurred at bus stops in the Rotherham area,

the schoolgirls are in their uniform, at the time, when they

have been approached by this male. They are aged between 10-15, when

this man approached them, engaged them in conversation and exposed

himself. You have drawn up some e- fits. Tell us what they say he

looks like. As you can see they are fairly similar, all of the girls

have described him as white, aged between 30-50. Five foot eight to

six feet tall, slim with short grey hair. How concerned are you about

the incidents? Obviously horrendous for the children involved. Is there

a danger it could escalate further? Obviously, that is something we

have in mind, however at this moment in time he has never

physically harmed any of the children or tried to abduct them.

Clearly he poses a potential risk, but at this moment in time there

has not been any fiscal harm the children. There is DNA evidence so

you could rule out suspects. Yes, so if any names are put forward

people can be easily eliminated from our inquiry. So if you have

your suspicion, get those names into us, they can be easily ruled

out. The numbers are on the screen, please give us a call about this,

Crimestoppers as well. It is really important that man is caught. Now

time for some more CCTV. The riots in August last year. There are

still outstanding suspects. It is the Woolwich area of London and

this man in a distinctive jacket is about to have a busy night. First

he throws objects at the police. Then, he enters a T-Mobile store

where he helps himself to om phones. Next he is on JD sports to kit

himself out. There he is, back on the street with all his loot. You

got enough there? Now we have seen what he has been up to, we need to

know who he is. Woolwich in London again, same day in August. This guy

with a black scarf over his face leaves a game shop. But the scarf

soon slip, gives us a great shot of him. This time having the destroyed

shutters held up for him as he goes into Vodafone. Here he is again in

JD Sports. And then helping himself through smashed shop windows. So

now help us by telling us who he is. Still, the London riots. Still

Woolwich. A wrecked police car is surrounded. The windows are already

smashed in, but that is not enough for one bloke. He returns to have a

go at the door as well. It is a shame he doesn't like police calfs,

if you name him the police will send one round. So, did you spot

anyone you know? If you did the number to call is: Nicola. Thank

you Rav. Well, earlier in the programme we were looking at the

problem of metal theft in this area, but it is a nationwide problem. One

hotspot area is Newham in East London. Down there, the council

have joined forces with the environment agency and the police,

and we have been out with them on a day of action to enforce the

regulations. It is 8.00am and Newham Council in East London are

embarking on a day of enforcement action. They are doing spot checks

on vehicles arriving at a scrapyard to sell metal. Metal theft has now

become such a serious problem across the UK, that the authorities

are going to greater lengths to try to crackdown on it. This is one of

the most simple ways they are doing that. Under Environment Agency rule,

every van delivering commercial scrap met toll the yards should

have a waste carrier's license. As they arrive at the scrapyard, vans

are stopped, searched and asked for their paperwork. The driver of one

of the first vans they stop can't produce the waste carrier's license.

The owner does have one, but as he doesn't have it with him he is

After two hours of stopping and searching, the word is out. The

number of arrivals slows down. The team news to my second location to

carry on checking. Almost at once, they take an interest in another

load. Do you speak more English than your friend? He speaks. It is

going, it is going... Whereas the card? With this man, the lack of a

waste carrier's licence is just the beginning of the problems. The law

enforcement officer discovers that the driver has no tax or insurance.

This vehicle has been stopped without tax. The driver has no

insurance. He has no waste carrier's licence, so the vehicle

is being seized. It will be reported to the DVLA. We will be

giving him a fine for having no waste carrier's licence. This has

been a costly trip to the yard for the striver. He is fine day �300

fixed penalty notice for not having a waste carrier's Licence and �200

for driving without insurance. And the van is impounded. The driver

will be charged a storage fee until it is collected. And this is

typical of the type of driver you stop? Yes. This is what we are

normally coming across. A I'm not sure what they're going to do. I

think they will be walking on. There was no way of knowing whether

the metal was stolen or not. By the end of the day, nine fixed penalty

notices have been issued at �300 each. As for that white van, it

still has not been collected. A great example of what can be done

to try and stop people from selling stolen metal in the first place.

However, the trade in illicit metal continues to grow. Among the

victims are the utility companies. Yorkshire Water has lost a small

fortune. Matthew Thomson from the company joins me. Had bigger

problem is it? It is a massive issue for Yorkshire Water. It

ranges from opposition -- or opportunistic threat to more

organised theft, hundreds of metres of copper cable. Even larger

appliances like generators and lifting equipment. Presumably when

this stuff is being stolen, the cost of replacing it falls back to

the customers? It does. We tried to absorb as much as possible but it

falls back on the customers. To put that in perspective, it cost us

�20,000 last month alone. We spent �410,000 replacing metal stolen

from sites in 2011. What effect does it have own water supplies

when essential pieces of equipment are pinched? It is not just the

cost. We have the issue of people injuring themselves, on open

manhole covers. There is also the cost of treatment processes failing

one important equipment is stolen. You mention manhole covers. This

one is cast-iron, the typical thing they will be going for. But you

have a cunning plan because you are replacing them with heavy-duty

plastic. How does this compare? is actually cheaper than the metal

equivalent. Is it as strong? It is more durable. This cover could take

10 puns. -- 10 times. Most importantly, it has no scrap value.

Hopefully you will replace a lot more of these.

We just have time to give you update on what has been coming in.

We have had some very strong information on things yesterday,

about a young mother who went missing nine years ago. The police

are following this up and there is an imagined -- massive emergency.

But we have as an interview -- information in from Daniel Michael

Collins, a possible sighting of him. Thank you to everyone that got in

touch. Dave and Nicola, what are you up to tomorrow? We are

literally going to the dogs. South Yorkshire is one of the few forces

that breeds its own horses. staying with the animal theme, will

be looking at a nasty spate of the sheep rustling in Sheffield.

wants to see the sheep and make sure that you join us, you will see

them too. From a drizzly Sheffield, back to the studio. See you both

tomorrow. That is it for today. Remember our wanted faces are on