Treorchy a Welsh village has been named and shamed as one of the worst places in the UK for car crime, above Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester.

People living in this region with the postcode CF42 are more likely to put in a theft claim on their car insurance than any other postcode in Wales.

A total of 2.89% of Treorchy residents living in this postcode made claims, while the statistics for Manchester was 2.60% and Liverpool was even less with 2.23% people making claims.

Andy Leadbetter, head of an insurance company stated his surprise: “It is quite a shock to see smaller rural villages snatching the top spots in the UK for car theft, whether it’s theft from the vehicle or of the vehicle itself.”

He continued, saying that he thought car crime was more common in cities:“I’d expect to see bustling urban hot spots to be topping the list but it seems English villages are not the idyllic locales we may think – at least not when it comes to car theft.”