The Essex border town that was synonymous with the Ford factory and pharmaceuticals is changing rapidly, as Joanne O'Connor discovered when she revisited the place she grew up inEarlier this month, Barking and Dagenham was voted the worst place to live in Britain. The survey, carried out by property website Rightmove, asked residents in 130 places to rate their neighbourhoods and the borough came 130th. It's per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM on August 23, 2015