...intention is to use galvanised wire to try to tie the panels
together to prevent them being lifted as easily

Hmm well the wire arrived from screwfix today, and i`m not sure its
really thick / strong enough to be more than a token gesture - the
scrotes could probably very easily slip something like a screwdriver
through any "looped" fixing and give it a twist, and i`m sure the wire
will snap.

For now, i`ve drilled a small hole in the concrete base panels at either
end, and another above the bottom rail of the fence immediately above,
and fed wire through the concrete, around the bottom rail, and done a bit
of a pull and twist to take up slack cable and tighten / tie the panels
to the concrete. While there isn`t a lot of visible / accessible wire,
they could still wrangle it quite easily I think.

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