Slough?I? Are you sure?

It's best known as the home of massively overrated sitcom The Office and the place that inspired some cutting (and equally overrated) verse by John Betjeman. But now Slough has a new claim to fame.

Figures released by Experian show it has overtaken London to become the identity fraud capital of the UK. The Berkshire town recorded 25 identity fraud attempts for every 10,000 households, with residents targeted at around four times the UK national average (seven households in every 10,000).

At first I thought, Slough? Really? But the logic is that the fraudsters are shifting their attentions away from the wealthier groups in society, those who live in prestigious London postcodes (David Cameron and his cabinet etc etc), to lower income demographics. The highest rates of identity fraud are now to be found in the Thames Valley and London’s Olympic neighbourhoods.

And on that bombshell, I wish you a great bank holiday weekend. Oh, and if you disagree re. The Office (good but not the work of genius it's often made out to be...I prefer the US version) and Betjeman's yawnfest, feel free to let me know.