Finding love online has become a popular way for many to find love and friendship. Fraudsters create fake profiles on dating sites or social media to establish a relationship with someone, with the aim of taking their money.

They gain your trust by appealing to your compassionate side, finding out personal information about you and creating fake stories so it seems like you have a lot in common.

Read more: WHAT IS ROMANCE FRAUD?

For many young people, September means a new term at school or university. For university students, those first few weeks and months should be fun and exciting, and might be the first time they’ve moved to a new city or house. This exciting period of change can also bring new challenges around safety and responsibility. It is well known that young people (aged 16 - 24) are disproportionately more likely to be victims of crime. Despite this, statistics on campus crime are only patchily recorded by many UK universities and just a handful make the information available to would-be students. A recent article from UniFresher

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Have you ever come across someone in the community who is known to lend money? They may be a well-known character, offering to help people out when they need a bit of extra cash. But behind that friendly façade, they could be a loan shark – a criminal who lends money and demands repayments without authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority. Without that authorisation, they are not bound by rules that protect borrowers. They can make up their own rates of interest and can use threats, intimidation and violence when someone struggles to pay

Read more: Could you spot a loan shark

Often people are so resigned to constant harassment and abuse that they believe it is something they must put up with, as though it's part of daily life. Everyone needs to make it clear that they find all forms of harassment unacceptable and take a stand against it. Witnessing street harassment and not safely intervening sends the message to those experiencing and perpetrating it that it's okay and that society considers the behaviour acceptable.

Read more: Street harassment

We previously wrote to you in April to notify you of a potential data breach relating to the Neighbourhood Watch scheme management tools. With the support of external IT security specialists, further investigations into the incident have continued in the weeks since and we are now in a position to provide you with an update as promised.

What is the scope of the breach?

Read more: Neighbourhood watch data breach

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