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As the schools break up and people go on holiday, insurance company Hiscox is warning that prevention is better than creativity when it comes to foiling burglars. Home owners can be extremely inventive when thinking of places in which to hide valuables but basic home security is likely to be far more effective in the end.

Imaginative hiding places uncovered by the insurance company include sewing jewellery into the lining of curtains, burying valuables in the garden, hiding treasured possessions in shoes and clothes, making your front door look scruffy in the hope that burglars will choose a better-cared-for house to burgle and hanging washing out before you go away to make the house look lived in.

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