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Fitness & Health

26th Mar 2015

Guess which city wins the Oscar for having the unhealthiest high-street in Britain?

We shouldn't have had that second box of fried chicken...

Ben Kenyon

And the award for the unhealthiest high-street in Britain goes to…

Drum roll please…

Preston! Well done, Preston. Come up here and claim your prize.

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With all your many fast food joints, tanning salons, bookmakers and bargain shops, you really were best of the worst (for some reason these things were deemed to have a negative impact on health).

The Royal Society for Public Health created the Top 10 unhealthiest high streets list from a selection of 70 areas across the country.

Middlesbrough, Coventry, Blackpool and Northampton also squeezed into the Top 5.

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Shrewsbury in Shropshire was named as Britain’s healthiest high street. A gold star to you Shrewsbury.

Here’s a full list of Britain’s unhealthiest high streets….

1. Preston

2. Middlesbrough

3. Coventry

4. Blackpool

5. Northampton

6. Wolverhampton

7. Grimsby

8. Huddersfield

9. Stoke-on-Trent

10. Eastbourne

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Topics:

Fast Food,Health