by Victor Atiemo | Jun 19, 2026 | latest industry insights, Uncategorized
A major new study published on 27 April 2026 in BMJ Public Health has produced the clearest evidence yet that longer licensed hours in the UK push up both crime and alcohol-related ambulance call-outs. The ELEPHANT study (Evaluating Later and Expanded Premises Hours...
by Victor Atiemo | Jun 18, 2026 | latest industry insights, Uncategorized
The Mayor of London has committed £4.66m of additional funding to Notting Hill Carnival 2026, on top of nearly £950,000 already pledged by City Hall. The money is earmarked for crowd safety improvements ahead of the event’s 60th anniversary in August, and...
by Victor Atiemo | Jun 17, 2026 | latest industry insights, Uncategorized
At around 12:30pm on 15 April 2026, a car was reportedly driven into the glass frontage of H&T Pawnbrokers on Soho Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, in what local press and West Midlands Police described as a daylight ram-raid. According to footage circulated by...
by Victor Atiemo | Jun 15, 2026 | latest industry insights, Uncategorized
The pattern that ran through London jewellers in the first months of 2026 has now spread beyond the capital. Sledgehammer attacks in Richmond and Hatton Garden, an armed raid in Hoddesdon, a daylight smash-and-grab on a Leeds watch retailer in April – each on...
by Victor Atiemo | Jun 14, 2026 | latest industry insights, Uncategorized
The Office for National Statistics’ April release was greeted in some quarters as long-awaited good news for retail. Police-recorded shoplifting offences in England and Wales fell by 1% in the year ending December 2025, down to 509,566. After consecutive years...
by Victor Atiemo | Jun 13, 2026 | latest industry insights, Uncategorized
The British Retail Consortium’s Crime Report 2026, published in February, found that incidents of violence and abuse against UK shopworkers averaged 1,600 a day over the year to August 2025. That is a 20% fall on the previous year’s figure of around 2,000...
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