Thames Valley Police have hailed as a success a drugs raid in Arthur Place which recovered a small quantity of cannabis. Twelve police officers and four community support officers took part in the raid which followed another massive raid on Mandela Court which saw the dealers move a whole 50 yards down the street in to Orts Road

Sergeant Dai Davies, of the East Reading neighbourhood police team, said the lack of drugs at the property was a positive sign and proof that higher levels of police were the way forward. He promised: "We have proved by finding hardly anything that we have managed to move the dealers 50 yards down the road. By extrapolating this raid, our estimates show that if you can give us another 420 officers and 140 PCSOs on the streets of Newtown, we will be able to move the problem at least as far as Wokingham."