Novel twist to calling the police as village launderette becomes nerve centre
PC Pat Barry, village bobby in Weaverham, Cheshire, at work in the store room of the launderette which serves as police station and contact point with the local community. The one-man police station at Weaverham, which has a population of 8,000, was closed in 1980.
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