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[BrilloPad]

BURGLARY HOTSPOTS

NG5 Arnold, Notts
LE3 Leicester
NG2 West Bridgford
CH66 Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
LS8 Roundhay, Leeds
SW11 Battersea, south London
S8 Sheffield
N8 Hornsey, north London
CR0 Croydon, Surrey
BN3 Hove, Sussex
NG3 Sherwood, Notts
NG8 Bilborough, Notts
BR3 Beckenham, Kent
M28 Worsley, Gtr Manchester
LS15 Crossgates, Leeds
E17 Walthamstow, east London
BS7 Bristol
SW6 Fulham, south-west London
SE23 Forest Hill, south-east London
SL6 Maidenhead, Berks



tulipeholes.

Maidenhead is one of the poshest places around.

[Fred Bloggs]

No entries for Liverpool ...

That's because they come over the Runcorn bridge to rob everything in sight in Cheshire.

[cojak]

Although Sherwood Nottingham is a good 50 minutes car ride from Sherwood Forest...

[xoggoth]

I used to live in Beckenham. Was fine then, wonder what's changed.

PS That was a rhetorical question. Been there since too.

[Sysman]

My brother-in-law lives in West Bridgford and actually it's one of the most desirable areas in Nottingham, the right side of the river and everything....

That's where all the 'Professional Classes' live...

Which is why it gets hit by the chavs I s'pose...

I assume that's the case for Roundhay as well. It is a desirable area (at least when I last looked).

When I lived in an "des. res." part of North Yorkshire, folks got hit by travelling thieves - from Geordie land if you lived near the A1, from Bradford and Leeds if you lived nearer those places.

[NickNick]

I've lived in one of those postcodes for the last 10 years or so. In the first 5 years we had three break-ins. One of which was a complete clear out of the house while we were on holiday. We then moved a couple of roads away and have had not a single break in in the past 5 years. So, giving it to just the first identifier is a little bit lame IMHO.

[Advocate]

So its pure coincidence then that these places you have visted or stayed near happen to be the burglary hotspots? Hmmmn.....

Cat burglar...


/it's a friday alright?

[MrToast]

Most of them and stayed near quite a few, I move around unlike many so called contractors

So its pure coincidence then that these places you have visted or stayed near happen to be the burglary hotspots? Hmmmn.....

[Bagpuss]

Been to all of those postcodes then Baggy?

Most of them and stayed near quite a few, I move around unlike many so called contractors

[MrToast]

A mixture of bad areas and ones next to bad areas.

Been to all of those postcodes then Baggy?

[NickFitz]

I live in one of the top ones on that list. The problem with insurance companies categorising these things by post code is that they cover such a broad area.

In my case, there's a crappy sink estate a mile to the south-west, another a mile to the north-west, and areas full of terraces rented out to students to the north and east. The estates' residents thrive in a black economy built on burgling each other's houses, and every student house that gets turned over generates three or four individual insurance claims, thus inflating the figures.

Meanwhile I live in a small area with a mix of young (or not so young in my case) professional types and middle class families, and all our insurance premiums are ramped up because of the nearby barbarians

[Clippy]

SL6, my old Nan lives there. Mind you, knowing her side of the family's history, it's likely it's her doing the robbing. Wondered where she got that 42" plasma from.

Cash Converters?

[thunderlizard]

Is that list in terms of numbers of burglaries, or value of stuff nicked? If the latter, Bond Street should have jumped a few places lately.

[Bagpuss]

A mixture of bad areas and ones next to bad areas.

[Crumlin]

SL6, my old Nan lives there. Mind you, knowing her side of the family's history, it's likely it's her doing the robbing. Wondered where she got that 42" plasma from.