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Most of those tricked into handing over money were aged between 60 and 90, with the biggest individual loss at £250,000.

Most home break-ins aren’t high-tech heists or movie-level operations. They’re often crimes of opportunity, made easy by overlooked details or a few minutes of carelessness. Law enforcement officers across the country have seen patterns in how burglars get in—and more importantly, how they could have been stopped.

COMMENT: Protesters outside a hotel housing asylum seekers have accused the local force of ‘bussing in’ anti-racism campaigners, a fallacy repeated by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and which has taken hold on social media. But it’s not the police stirring up trouble, says Sean O’Grady

Police are searching for a missing teenager who vanished after his car crashed