Crime rates in Cambridgeshire have dropped by 10 per cent in the past year, according to figures released today by the Office for National Statistics.

Crime has fallen in every region in the UK and is down by 7 per cent nationally since this time last year, hitting the lowest level since 1981.

Crime has been lower every single year under the coalition government than it was in every single year that Labour was in power – falling by over 10 per cent nationally since the present government was formed in 2010.