LEIGH Business leader Gordon Jackson has called for security cameras to be installed all over the centre of Leigh.

And he is calling on Leigh MP Lawrence Cunliffe to support the Business Partnership's demand for increases in police manpower.

Mr Jackson wants the new CCtv coverage extending to the fringes of the shopping centre following a series of shop raids and window smashing.

"We welcome the coming security cameras but feel they should be extended to cover the top end of the town.

"And we now feel that there should be an increase in police manpower operating on-the-beat in the town centre. That's especially now that the town is pedestrianised and police patrol cars don't come into the heart of the shopping centre."

Mr Jackson revealed that in the New Year the Business Partnership would be calling for a meeting with council chief Peter Smith, police boss David Edge and Mr Cunliffe to press for more police cover in the town.

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