Cold-callers visit elderly residents in East Hagbourne

Thames Valley Police's Didcot and Wallingford neighbourhood teams have had calls reporting of people visiting addresses, sometimes several times, to offer to cut trees.

Anyone visited by these 'persistent' cold-callers is urged to report it to police.

Last month, Oxfordshire residents were warned of scammers targeting vulnerable people as part of a Universal Credit sting.

Scammers were using the benefit as a pivotal part of a new racket to extract money from people facing financial difficulty, Citizens Advice South and Vale said at the time.