Comes as two Midlands men are the latest to be charged with stripping lead from homes as part of a crackdown on metal theft.

Police record fall in metal theft crime

Tough new penalties on people who steal or sell metal from war memorials come into place today.

War memorial metal theft penalties come into effect

Sniffer dogs are being used for the first time to sniff out stolen metal.

Moves to create new laws, to tackle the growing problem of metal theft, will take a step forward today.

A man has appeared in court accused of stealing more than 600 metal drain covers in the Midlands, worth £155,000.

Four large sluice gates, weighing around nine tonnes in total, have been stolen in Derby.

Churches across North Yorkshire are to fit roof alarms to prevent metal theft. 

 
A man has appeared in court accused of stealing more than 600 metal drain covers from streets in Worcestershire and Warwickshire.


A war memorial erected to honour our soldiers who died thousands of miles from home has been vandalised. 