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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Maynard Manyowa & Bradley Jolly

Eerie ghost village leaves residents scared to leave homes over burglary fears

Families in a small village live in fear of being burgled because it has one of the worst rates for the crime in the whole of the country.

More than 6,000 people live in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, but it's become something of "modern-day ghost village" with derelict buildings on many of its roads.

It has some of the highest burglary rates in the entire country, fourth by number alone in Yorkshire.

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