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Binn Inn worker Pawan Gill said she wasn’t sure the plastic containers would be strong enough to stop a ram raid, and they needed something more permanent. These concerns were echoed by Green World Fruit & Veges owner Gurbagha Singh who thought the containers might do more harm than good. “It s going to make it worse. “There’s only water in those, not sand.” Singh said, in their strip of shops, only the dairy had been hit in a ram raid before, and he felt the containers outside their stores were not visually appealing. He had been told a plan for the future was to create concrete planter boxes with flowers in them, which he said would be better.
The supermarket owner, who did not want to be named, said the break-in happened about 3.40am. “We normally stack pallets against the front door to make it difficult for anyone thinking of breaking in. “But they’ve driven a car through the front, everything shifted back into the shop, the checkout was damaged, there was glass everywhere going back into the aisles.” A neighbouring shop owner’s husband came to help clean up and even customers offered to help as well when they saw their favourite shop damaged.
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