REPORTS of crime and antisocial behaviour in Hipperholme dropped last month.

Police were called to 44 incidents – down by seven on the previous six weeks.

And it’s a reduction of 36 compared with the same time last year.

Last year there were 24 house burglaries, but from the end of November 2010 until early January there were just eight.

Reports of antisocial behaviour were down to 26 incidents – two less than the previous six weeks and 21 less than last year.