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New stricter regulations are coming into force in an effort to combat metal theft here in Northamptonshire and beyond.

Scrap metal dealers have just a month left to apply for a licence to operate from their local council. Under the new rules it'll be illegal to pay for metal with cash and dealers will have to keep a record of who they've bought from and sold to.

Reporter Tom Percival explains how the new scheme works, while local scrap metal dealer Paul Late tells 91Èȱ¬ Radio Northampton that the industry has had to respond to change already.

Stuart talks to Kevin Shapland, who helped organise a national conference on metal theft in the Northamptonshire last year, and to David Arthur, the Senior Project Manager of the Signature Materials Project.

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