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Neighbourhood watch
25 years on - and still going strong
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Neighbourhood Watch in the UK.
The pioneers were a group of residents from Mollington, near Chester, who got together when a mini crime wave hit their village back in 1982. They had heard about Neighbourhood Watch schemes being successful in the United States and set up a Watch scheme of their own.
Today there are some 170,000 Neighbourhood Watch groups, making it the largest voluntary community movement in the UK.
Read all about us - in the Express
The Daily Express has given a big publicity boost to Neighbourhood Watch by running an in-depth feature charting the success of the movement.
The paper looked back over 25 years of Neighbourhood Watch, from its earliest beginnings in the small village of Mollington, near Chester, to its growth to become the biggest voluntary community organisaation in the UK.
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