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Welsh retailers call for funding to help tackle crime and illicit trade

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Independent retailers are calling for the new Welsh government to bring in a £6,500 grant to enable them to install modern CCTV to combat retail crime. The measure is one of three manifesto proposals the Federation of Independent Retailers (the Fed) has submitted to party…

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