Barcelona is world's top city for pickpockets

Tourists visiting Barcelona are more likely to be the victim of a pick-pocket than anywhere else, it has been claimed.

Travel website TripAdvisor found the Spanish city was the worst place for tourists loosing their bags with Las Ramblas, the famous wide walkway being pickpocket central.

Rome in Italy came second, closely followed by Prague in the Czech Republic where you are warned to hold onto you stuff if walking along the Vltava River.

Other pickpocket hot-spots include Madrid, Paris and Florence… and while you have been reading this we have pinched your wallet.