Man killed after gang attacks in quiet rural town

[mikebratcher69]

[bigpaul]

population of Newbury 28,000 in 2001, so not a huge place but i think its the HQ of some pharmacutical company, home of the famous bypass of course and lots of stables, and of course drugs are everywhere these days, even here.

[Scythe13]

Newbury is where LOTS of companies place their head offices, just because of the motorway access points and things like that.

The compnay I'm with has their head office over there, and there were loads of others out that direction too.

[NorthernRaider]

This story comes out the same time as many forces announce they are going to close up to 80% of their rural police stations and tell peope to report crimes via the internet.

A double edged sword in my opinion, vulnerable rural dwellers will possibly be more vulnerble to criminal deeds, but alternately rural preppers will have more leeway in being able to ..... erm ...... Improve their personal and domestic security arrangements with even less risk of passing plods finding them, as the plods are gradually being almost fully withdrawn from rural areas.