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09:17 UK time, Tuesday, 2 November 2010

"The problem is if we suddenly called ourselves Staines-upon-Thames people would think it was another Staines" - Curtis Jenkins, chair of the Staines Town Society, on plans to rebrand Ali G's stamping ground.

The Surrey town, best known as the home of Sacha Baron Cohen's character and his "massive", is the subject of a bid by the Spelthorne Business Forum to change its name. The organisation's Alex Tribick hopes the new title will counter portrayals of Staines as "an urban wasteland off the end of the M25". But Mr Jenkins disagrees, adding: "People know that Staines is Staines."

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