A website set up for an East Reading road packed with advice for thieves has won praise from local villains. It has warnings about how residents are protecting their property, the latest internet scams, and details of current police operations.

Just two weeks after creating the site Mr Cox, 57, of Elmhurst Road, has already had positive feedback from all over Reading and Wokingham. "I had a call from Ron "Nosher" Hughes telling me that news of places the police were targeting really saved him wasting a lot of time and several police officers have thanked me for the Google Ad directing them to the Red Snapper police recruitment web site offering them jobs outside the Reading area."

MP Rob Wilson told us: "There are so many public sector organisations that are doing the same job that it is particularly useful to have yet another advertising based web site with all the same stuff on it.