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Antisocial Behaviour: Media campaign catches local 'yobs'

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The campaign used CCTV images of young people believed to have vandalised buses as bingo squares. Readers of News Shopper, a free weekly newspaper for southeast London and north Kent, who could identify three in a row or the four in each corner of the page, could win a digital camera.

Matt Ramsden, news editor of News Shopper, said: "The response has been phenomenal. We've got all 80 people and 65 were caught after just six hours of the paper coming out."

London Central Buses provided the paper with the images. It intends to pass the details to the police, but may take legal action if the force doesn't prosecute.

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