£175,000 is to be spent on making the area around the Basingstoke Canal safer for women after a number of indecent exposures.

The waterway crosses Hampshire and Surrey.

There have been a number of exposures and suspicious incidents since July 2019, especially in the Woking area. 

The money will go towards installing extra CCTV cameras and signage along the canal footpath and the removal of foliage. 

It is part of the Home Office’s Safer Streets funding which has seen around £23.5million shared across England and Wales. 

It follows previous Safer Streets project to reduce anti-social behaviour in Stanwell.