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Anonymous
I lived in near Slough.
That's... pretty much the worst town in Britain.
Stabbings, mugging, shootings...
Negative Perceptions
* Slough has a strong rivalry with local neighbouring town, Staines. Both are near Heathrow and vie for out-of-town businesses moving from London. Ali G, a fictional resident of Staines, often pokes fun at Slough and its sports teams.
* According to the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in 2006, Slough is England's least tranquil area.[14]
* Slough has been the subject of much derision. Some references are mentioned above. However, the BBC aired a four-part series called "Making Slough Happy", where a team of experts attempted to bring happiness to the whole town. Despite complaints by some residents who said "the series was not particularly representative of the diversity of Slough", this can be contradicted because the sample "50" did provide a cross section of Slough with different ethnic minorities and age groups represented. However, most of the criticism was seen to come from people within Slough, while the majority of people outside Slough thought it was quite good; overall it did make a big impact and raised people's awareness of Slough as a whole.[15]
* Slough-raised comedian Jimmy Carr said: "I grew up in Slough in the 1970s, if you want to know what Slough was like in the 1970s, go there now".
* The Slough Sewage Treatment Works between M4 Junc 6 and 7, sometimes releases malodorous fumes detectable to drivers on the nearby M4 motorway, a phenomenon known colloquially as The Slough Stench.
* The Russian KGB secret service made detailed 1:10,000 maps of most urban areas of the UK, but did not bother to make a map of Slough.[16]
* Slough was recently the subject of a scathing documentary by the BBC's Panorama series, entitled: "Immigration - how we lost count"[17]. It highlighted the massive recent growth in the immigrant population.
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