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W elcome Welcome tto oA ugust August While many restaurants and pubs remain closed at this time, you may be looking for inspiration for new meals to cook at home. Our Delicious Dish is packed full of flavour and is easy to make for a quick mid-week dinner. If you’re thinking of venturing out on day trips or a mini summer holiday, Louise Williams has some great tips to help you be a planet-friendly tourist in her Save the Planet article. One of our long-standing clients, Regency Cleaners, has spent the last few months investing in new cleaning technologies to make your home or business premises a safer environment for all who enter. Read more about this inside. We also have an overview of the Annual Report from the Police and Crime Commissioner, Martin Surl – the full report is available online. If you are a business looking to grow or reach more customers, we have a wide range of advertising packages for you to choose from. Call 01242 510500 or get in touch via email – info@thelocalanswer.co.uk
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RE-OPENS 27th JULY! A warm welcome awaits you
We are delighted to re-open our restaurant for you to dine-in from 27th July. We have been following government guidelines to ensure our customers and staff are safe, while we provide our fantastic food and service. We advise you to book early, as we will not be
able to operate at our usual capacity for a while. If you are not ready to join us in our restaurant, you can still enjoy your favourite dishes in the comfort of your own home with our Take-away service. This is available lunchtimes (12-2pm) and evenings (from 5pm) seven days a week. Just make your selection from the Take-Away Menu on our website and phone your order through during these hours. To avoid unnecessary delays, you will be advised on available collection times when you place your order. We will, of course, do our best to accommodate all
customer wishes but recommend ordering well in advance to avoid disappointment. We accept card or cash payment. We look forward to welcoming you back into our restaurant!
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Police and Crime Commissioner Martin Surl’s
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PCC’s ‘Every crime matters’ mantra scoops multi-million pound dividend When the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable decided to challenge serious organised criminals who target random urban and rural communities in Gloucestershire, they could not have expected how quickly the investment would pay-off. Not only have there been hundreds fewer burglaries but also cash savings worth more than £4,000,000 to the Constabulary and the public. The Home Office Research Report Economic and Social Costs of Crime, second edition (July 2018), puts the average police cost of both residential and commercial burglary at £530 per incident. It calculates that 900 fewer burglaries in Gloucestershire, the equivalent of a 21.3% reduction on the previous 12 months, equals a gross saving of £477,000 (900x£530). Take away the PCC’s cash injection in September towards burglary prevention campaigns and police operations, the net saving is £377,000. Yet those figures are dwarfed when the Home Office formula factors in the costs to victims, stolen property, repairs to damage and insurance claims, which takes the cost of each burglary to £5,220. Then the gross savings of 900 fewer burglaries in the county rises to £4,698,000; and when you factor out the PCC’s investment, the net saving to victims and the wider economy is estimated at £4,548,000. Gloucestershire Constabulary’s Head of Investigations, Det Supt Steve Bean said: “Obviously this is a purely financial calculation but
it is a good barometer of the success we’ve had in the period under review. “What is more important is the ‘human calculation’. The savings in terms of the distress, trauma, anxiety and inconvenience that the victims of 900 burglaries would have suffered. That is the real result”. Mr Surl said, “The Chief Constable and I agree that every crime matters and that every contact [with the public] counts. I refreshed the Police and Crime Plan to reflect this. “The investment I made went directly into the fight against burglary and serious acquisitive rural crime because that’s what the public were asking for and what the police wanted too. “Burglary is a heinous crime and must always be a priority for the police, no matter what else they happen to be dealing with. These are very encouraging results and I hope they dispel the misconception that the police are no longer interested in some levels of crime”.
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Having spent the last four months working from home whilst the office has been largely ‘locked down’, I’m convinced that it’s a much harder balance to achieve for those whose work base is also their home. There are no clean lines of what is work and what is play. Work/life balance is much easier to achieve in a ‘9 to 5’ environment when you simply put your coat on, leave work and go home. But a small business owner can never do that. At least not without a huge dose of discipline that most of them don’t possess. For them it’s probably a question that they love their work and find it incredibly difficult to tear themselves away. There is no one answer for everyone. We must all deal with it in our own sweet way. But it’s important we do before we are consumed by it all.
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