THE lights in every other staircase landing in blocks of flats looked after by the Sembawang Town Council will be turned off after midnight to save electricity.

It will leave the landings bright enough to deter crime, and help keep the town council's power bills down.

With electricity tariffs having jumped 20 per cent recently, the town council is also replacing 630 fluorescent-illuminated block signs with more energy-efficient light-emitting diode ones.

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