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CCTV spycameraswill TALKin London

Oh, dad! Bob dresses up forPeaches’ 18th

FULL STORYAND MOREPICTURES:

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Every daughter’snightmare: it’s

bad enoughhaving your dad

at your 18th —but Peaches

Geldof’s fatherBob also seemedto throw himself

into the circustheme with a

clown-style outfitlast night

WEDNESDAY, 4 APRIL 2007

Speakers to tick off anti-social yobsLONDON is to get CCTVcameras that tell offoffenders in the street.

Drunks, vandals and litterlouts will be chastised with achild’s voice broadcast overloudspeakers.

The cameras will zero in onanti-social behaviour and anoperator at a control centre will

trigger the pre-recorded tickingoff. And not only will the cam-era talk, it will listen. A helpbutton will allow the public toalert the control centre to turnthe lens to trouble elsewhere.

A scheme in Middlesbroughusing the special cameras, pic-

tured, is said to have cut publicorder offences by 70 per cent.

But it was branded “absurd”by civil liberty campaignerstoday. Other critics said crimi-nals will simply move on.

Tony Arbour of the Metropoli-tan Police Authority said: “Weare accustomed to Big Brother

BY MARTIN BENTHAM

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WHAT MADEMADGE WEEP?

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