The little town that was '1 of UK's worst' where crime has stopped

A small commuter town once voted one of the "worst" places to live in the UK is starting to become “middle class” with thousands of new homes due to be built and an 82% drop in anti-social behaviour in just eight months. Corby, in Northamptonshire, was once a tiny village until it was transformed in the early 20th century by the arrival of the Glasgow-based steel firm, Stewarts and Lloyds, in 1932, which sent the population rocketing from 1,500 to 18,000 in just two decades.

The arrival of so many Glasgow steel workers to work in the massive industrial site led to this slice of middle England being dubbed “Little Scotland”. But disaster struck in 1979 when the factory was abruptly closed leaving 10,000 people out of a job, and instantly giving the area the highest unemployment rate in