Tendring in Essex is planning its biggest ever clampdown on tax dodgers who have been warned they could receive a night-time call from bailiffs.

Councillor Pierre Oxley believes the plan will help make a difference.

"We want to have an element of surprise and to turn up at these people's homes just as they are sitting down to watch Coronation Street," he said.

"We are rightly going to collect the money the council is owed.

"We'll have sympathy for those who may not be able to pay, but there is a hard core (of people) who can and we want to surprise them.

"We're going to crack down hard on them."