GLASGOW is one of the worst places in Britain for killings.

The city ranked sixth in the top 10 areas throughout the UK with the highest proportional homicide rates, with a total of 11.4 killings per 100,000 people in the last five years.

Nearby Inverclyde came top of the table with 14 homicides per every 100,000 people living in the area.

According to data produced by the BBC, there were 71 homicides in Glasgow since 2013.

There were 21 in South Lanarkshire, 17 in North Lanarkshire, three in East Dunbartonshire and five in West Dunbartonshire.

In Renfrewshire, there were 16 killings and in East Renfrewshire there was just one.

Despite the figures, the number of homicides across Scotland is in decline. Since 2008, the number of homicides in Scotland fell by 39 per cent from 97 to 59.

While last year, the number dropped from 62 killings in 2016-17 to 59 - the joint lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12 month period since 1976.

Of the killings, Police Scotland figures reveal a knife or sharp instrument was used in 34 of them.

Men accounted for 28 of victims in the killings.

It comes as it was revealed the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales had risen to its highest since records began in 1946.