It's a well-known outside the Metropolis that people who live in London think it's the dead-centre of the country (if not the Universe: witness the Millennium Dome, for example - 20 quid and an average drive of 150 miles to a place with no motorways or main roads, then there's nowhere to park). The rest of us know better: we only go to London if we have to, or as tourists. Actually, the exact dead-centre of England is a place called Meriden; no-one ever goes there, either - not even as a tourist.

Steve