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.
As world trade burgeoned in the age of colonial expansion, valuable cargoes were transported across the world s 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 history s most despicable pirates, who plundered the seas from the ports of the American colonies to the Indian Ocean…