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"Terror weapons (knives) taken off Coventry's streets (banning knives)"
Coventry ^ | April 7, 2006 | Ben Griffin
Posted on 04/08/2006 12:35:25 AM PDT by FairOpinion
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "THESE horrifying knives have been taken off the streets of Coventry in the last 10 days.
They are examples of the kinds of blades police and the Evening Telegraph are trying to banish from the city during the One Knife One Life campaign.
The campaign, which was launched in the city last week, aims to teach youngsters - and particularly teenage boys - the dangers of knives.
Police say young people carry knives to make themselves feel more secure, or because they know other people do.
They say they don't think about the potentially devastating consequences carrying a knife can have.
During the Evening Telegraph-backed campaign police are going into schools teaching youngsters that one stab wound can kill.
And they are encouraging people to bin a blade in an amnesty which runs until May.
They are also searching people they suspect to be carrying knives and seizing them.
Last week they took a knife from a teenager when they searched him in Brightmere Road, Radford.
The blade, hidden inside a working cigarette lighter, flicks out at the push of a button.
The youngster who had the knife has been spoken to by police but has not been charged.
Another horrifying knife was found at a house police were searching in Fowler Road, Radford.
Officers had gone to the house using a search warrant for drugs and found the hunting knife."
Another reason why my last vacation to the UK in April 1999 is going to be my last vacation to the UK ever.