Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

The woman was called by a ‘home savings’ company offering boiler services, citing better energy efficiency and a £500 saving.

She was then quoted a price of £1,200 for a boiler flush, and was visited at her home in Peterborough by men who hit her radiators with hammers and showed her bottles supposedly containing dirty remnants/water from the radiators.

The woman was then presented with a card machine and paid the money.

As the colder part of the year approaches, please remain wary of similar calls and remember if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

If you aren’t expecting to hear from a salesperson or business, be cautious of your dealings with them. Do not feel pressured into handing over money or bank account details to pay for a product or service that you weren’t planning to buy before they called or arrived at your door.

For more advice and information on fraud and cold callers, visit the force’s dedicated web pages by clicking here.

Thank you,
Tara Cox, Corporate Communications

I would like to begin with a huge thank you for your continued participation in the CIS. Without the critical information you provide from your swab and blood tests, the Government would not have had the evidence to make key decisions over the past year. And it is the data you provide to us which will continue to help us navigate infections into the winter and ahead to next year.

With restrictions having eased and social lives returning, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the CIS is winding down, or the data from the survey is of less use than at the height of the pandemic a few months ago.

In fact, the survey is more vital than ever. Every single person taking part in this study – and there are over 400,000 of you – is critically important to our picture of the nation.

As more of the UK population get vaccinated, tracking the impact of the vaccines, and the protection they give against catching the virus, reducing the severity of infection and onward transmission is a key priority. We need to continue to learn as much as possible about COVID-19 infection and antibody levels in the community population.

By continuing to participate you are providing essential information about how long antibodies remain in our bodies after vaccination. This will contribute to government decisions about whether or not ‘booster’ shots are needed.
Ultimately your data will support the roadmap to recovery for the UK.

We don’t underestimate the effort you continue to make, which is why I would like to personally thank you for your support.