| For two years, endless committees have been discussing how to raise Newbury’s profile, but a new book has beaten them to it after naming Newbury in the top 50 of Britain’s ‘crap towns’.
More than 20,000 people from around the country have been nominating the worst places to live in Britain, and Newbury came in 37th.
The survey was organised by Sam Jordison after his book Crap Towns became a cult hit, featuring Hull as Britain’s top cesspit. He was inundated with further suggestions, and the sequel, Crap Towns II – the Nation Decides, is out on Friday.
This year’s list contains some surprising choices, with Newbury faring better than Windsor (2nd), Edinburgh (4th), Bath (7th) and Winchester (21st), which all got more votes.
Most of the votes are understood to have come from disaffected locals who emailed Mr Jordison via his website. Newbury.net has asked the publishers for an explanation of the town’s placing, and results will be published here as soon as we get them.
The full listing is
1. Luton
2. Windsor
3. Sunderland
4. Edinburgh
5. Glasgow
6. Clapham
7. Bath
8. Nottingham
9. Corby
10. Middlesbrough
11. Birmingham
12. Hackney
13. Kew
14. Hanwell
15. Camden
16. Brixton
17. London
18. Littlehampton
19. Hull
20. Port Talbot
21. Winchester
22. Portadown
23. Wrexham
24. Portsmouth
25. Bangor
26. Bristol
27. Airdrie
28. Bognor Regis
29. Aldershot
30. Preston
31. Woking
32. Croydon
33. Bedford
34. Totton
35. Milton Keynes
36. Leicester
37. Newbury
38. Mansfield
39. Bradford
40. Manchester
41. Peacehaven
42. Hemel Hempstead
43. Bournemouth
44. Thorpeness
45. Leeds
46. Gravesend
47. Cardiff
48. Belfast
49. Cleator Moor
50. Chester | 
