Councils urge MPs to act on scrap-metal theft

摘要

Council leaders have urged ministers to tackle the spiralling cost of scrap-metal theft and take forward legislation against the crime in this parliament, in the form of a private member's bill. The call follows the theft of a plaque in War-rington dedicated to two children killed by an IRA bomb attack in 1993, and the discovery of a stash of memorial plaques and statues in a yard in London last week.