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| Readers: Speak up for your 'crap town' | Readers: Speak up for your 'crap town' |
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| The hotly awaited second edition of Crap Towns, “back by unpopular demand”, is set to spark another ferocious debate as it whittles down the top 100 longlist to 50 of the UK's worst places to live. | The hotly awaited second edition of Crap Towns, “back by unpopular demand”, is set to spark another ferocious debate as it whittles down the top 100 longlist to 50 of the UK's worst places to live. |
| While Hackney, Liverpool, Hull, Blackpool and Merthyr Tydfil still feature in the list, this year some may be surprised to see richer market towns joining the industrial scrapheaps – including Chipping Norton, Oxford and Norfolk. | While Hackney, Liverpool, Hull, Blackpool and Merthyr Tydfil still feature in the list, this year some may be surprised to see richer market towns joining the industrial scrapheaps – including Chipping Norton, Oxford and Norfolk. |
| The first edition of Crap Towns was published in 2003 and sold more than 100,000 copies. Some towns included in this year's longlist are perhaps more expected than others – the authors Sam Jordison & Dan Kieran started the endeavour after being unimpressed at the state their hometowns of Morecambe in Lancashire and Alresford in Hampshire. But this year the editors expect the inclusion of places like Brighton, Gateshead, Stratford-upon-Avon, Newquay, Bury St Edmunds and Mayfair to cause some controversy. | The first edition of Crap Towns was published in 2003 and sold more than 100,000 copies. Some towns included in this year's longlist are perhaps more expected than others – the authors Sam Jordison & Dan Kieran started the endeavour after being unimpressed at the state their hometowns of Morecambe in Lancashire and Alresford in Hampshire. But this year the editors expect the inclusion of places like Brighton, Gateshead, Stratford-upon-Avon, Newquay, Bury St Edmunds and Mayfair to cause some controversy. |
| Has your town made the top 100? Save it from the final top 50 cut by speaking up for your town here. Why it's great not crap, and why people really do enjoy living there? We'll feature the best comments here in the blog. | Has your town made the top 100? Save it from the final top 50 cut by speaking up for your town here. Why it's great not crap, and why people really do enjoy living there? We'll feature the best comments here in the blog. |
| The Crap Towns publishers are also encouraging people to comment on their website and post on Twitter in defence or support of the inclusion of a crap town using the hashtags #craptown or #notacraptown with the chance of winning a prize. | The Crap Towns publishers are also encouraging people to comment on their website and post on Twitter in defence or support of the inclusion of a crap town using the hashtags #craptown or #notacraptown with the chance of winning a prize. |
| So it's over to you – take a look at the full longlist below and tell us why your town is decidedly the opposite of crap and should be saved from the Crap Towns shortlist in a comment. Read the full story here. | So it's over to you – take a look at the full longlist below and tell us why your town is decidedly the opposite of crap and should be saved from the Crap Towns shortlist in a comment. Read the full story here. |
| Crap Towns: the full longlist for 2013 | Crap Towns: the full longlist for 2013 |
| Aberdeen Antrim Bacup Banbury Barnsley Bedford Belfast Bicester Blackburn Blackpool Boston Bradford Brighton Broxburn Burnham Market Bury St Edmunds Calais Camberley Castleford Chipping Norton Chorley Coventry Craven Arms Crawley Croydon Dagenham Derby Doncaster Dudley Dufftown Dundee Dursley Easington Felixstowe Fort William Four Marks Garstang Gateshead Gibraltar Glastonbury Great Yarmouth Grimsby Hackney Hartlepool Hatfield Haverhill Haworth High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilfracombe Jarrow Jaywick Kilmarnock Leamington Spa Lewes Lincoln Liverpool London Loughborough Louth Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Medway Towns Merthyr Tydfil Milton Keynes Morecambe Newhaven Newquay Newton Stewart Nuneaton Oxford Peterlee Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Rhyl Scarborough Sheerness Sheffield Slough Southampton Southport Stafford Staines Stockton-upon-Tees Stoke On Trent Stratford-Upon-Avon Swansea Thetford Thurso Tilston Warrington Woking Woodstock Worksop Wrexham York | Aberdeen Antrim Bacup Banbury Barnsley Bedford Belfast Bicester Blackburn Blackpool Boston Bradford Brighton Broxburn Burnham Market Bury St Edmunds Calais Camberley Castleford Chipping Norton Chorley Coventry Craven Arms Crawley Croydon Dagenham Derby Doncaster Dudley Dufftown Dundee Dursley Easington Felixstowe Fort William Four Marks Garstang Gateshead Gibraltar Glastonbury Great Yarmouth Grimsby Hackney Hartlepool Hatfield Haverhill Haworth High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Ilfracombe Jarrow Jaywick Kilmarnock Leamington Spa Lewes Lincoln Liverpool London Loughborough Louth Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Medway Towns Merthyr Tydfil Milton Keynes Morecambe Newhaven Newquay Newton Stewart Nuneaton Oxford Peterlee Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Rhyl Scarborough Sheerness Sheffield Slough Southampton Southport Stafford Staines Stockton-upon-Tees Stoke On Trent Stratford-Upon-Avon Swansea Thetford Thurso Tilston Warrington Woking Woodstock Worksop Wrexham York |
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