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It's nice to live in a town that's famous for something other than murders or suicide or husband-beating or nuffin' (from IOL):

The southern English town of Wallingford in Oxfordshire was named the most Harry Potter-crazy locale in Britain on Tuesday.

The town, which was home to Agatha Christie, pre-ordered more copies of the seventh edition of author JK Rowling's hugely successful Harry Potter series of books per capita than any other in Britain, according to online retailer Amazon.co.uk.

We also realised a week ago that we are subtly famous because the town of Causton of Midsomer Murders fame seems to be set in Wallingford. So that means we are just about the murder capital of the country, after a fashion. Barnaby's turning out to be as bad luck to have around as Jessica Fletcher was.