Concerned residents in Strabane have moved to set up community watch groups to protect elderly people in the area after recent oil thefts locally.
As the cost of living crisis deepens and as winter approaches, independent councillor Raymond Barr said local people wanted to help those most vulnerable in the community.
Heating oil thefts had been reported in the Clady area while there had also been a report of two people gaining entry to an elderly woman’s house in the Ballymagorry area in recent weeks.
