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Despite the Office for National Statistics announcing that UK house prices fell £6,000 in 12 months, a surprisingly large number of areas such as Falmouth, left, have bucked the trend.

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As world trade burgeoned in the age of colonial expansion, valuable cargoes were transported across the worlds oceans, providing vast opportunity for piracy on the seas. Who were the most famous pirates, and who were the worst? And were there any female pirates? Here are 14 of historys most despicable pirates, who plundered the seas from the ports of the American colonies to the Indian Ocean…