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SCRAP metal dealers in Merseyside have been warned by police to be on the look-out for railway cable thieves. British Transport Police are trying to stop the increasing number of thefts from ...

From next month, scrap metal dealers will no longer be able to deal in cash, under a legal crackdown aimed at combating thefts that regularly cause broadband and phone outages for BT customers.

UNDERCOVER officers swooped on a scrap dealer’s yard and seized tonnes of nicked copper cable worth thousands of pounds. The expensive material was found lying in neat piles, cut up into handy ...