A group aiming to help reduce crimes against businesses in Tadley is close to being set up after several meetings to discuss the possibility of establishing a Tadley Business Against Crime group, made up of the owners and managers of local firms.

As well as cutting shoplifting, the consortium would seek to stop anti-social behaviour that affects traders and local leisure and service providers in the town, through sharing information about repeat troublemakers.

A similar group in Basingstoke - called Basingstoke Business Against Crime - was established successfully in the town centre in 2006.

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