the true number is likely to be much higher, as only 19 out of the 52 police forces provided the figures, in response to Freedom of Information requests.

The rise comes despite an overall fall in crime recorded during the past five years.

Rather than reading trash newspapers one can read the facts here.
You might not like them.
Crime in Scotland

or cut the stream of illegal immigrants coming under and over the sea

poverty is no excuse for mugging an old lady of 84 in a queue at M&S!

(or for committing any other crime come to that)

Glad I'm up here in Scotland, not one of those economic migrants.... that left these lands. Good riddance, tae bad rubbish - if you ask me..

To whom are you referring here? The colonials and expats on the boards? The victims of the highland clearances?

Last month Bombardier, Britain’s last train maker, announced 1,400 job losses after Transport Secretary Philip Hammond awarded the £1.5billion Thameslink contract to Siemens.

But Transport Minister Theresa Villiers yesterday admitted that millions had been paid to consultants who advised on the tendering process.

Union bosses immediately demanded a re-think of the deal to build 1,200 carriages.

Ministers insist that under EU law they were bound by a process set up by the last Labour government which failed to include factors such as jobs.

Mark Young, the East Midlands regional coordinator of Unite, which represents most of the Bombardier workers, said: “To spend £15million of taxpayers’ money on consultants only for the contract to be awarded to a company that will not even build the trains in the UK is a nonsense.”

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The news that over £15m has been soaked up in advisers and consultants’ fees...adds insult to injury


Bob Crow, the boss of the RMT rail union

Bob Crow, the boss of the RMT rail union, called on the National Audit Office to include the consultants’ costs in its investigation into the contract.

He said: “These well-paid advisers totally failed to include the wider costs to the UK economy in the tendering evaluation, despite the fact that it is standard practice in other European countries.

“The news that over £15million has been soaked up in advisers and consultants’ fees to oil the wheels of the Bombardier stitch-up adds insult to injury.

“This money could have been invested in defending train manufacturing jobs in the UK. It’s time for the Government to award this contract to the Derby workforce.”

Perhaps we have marginalised these people to such an extent, ( economically socially ) that they exist outwith main stream society. Is it any wonder some break the law..... I maintain that the link between poverty and crime is self evident... the answer seems... cut poverty and reduce crime.
simples.