LocateTV Blog

Now, our development team are an incredibly glamorous bunch. When not slaving day and night to fix every glitch and deeply consider every fragment of feedback thrown to them by our private beta testers, they love to sling on a sharp suit, watch an old cult movie in an arthouse cinema, and then dance the night away in an underground jazz joint surrounded by husky-voiced musical legends and beautiful broads.

However, a few cynics have suggested that LocateTV HQ is not quite the slick televisual temple they would expect, based as it is in Staines. At this point we would like to direct said naysayers to a 2006 article from omniscient online publication www.shopping-centre.co.uk, entitled ‘Kickstart for Staines’.

Imploring readers to “take a look at this town”, the article wastes no time in dispelling the crude Ali G references so often directed towards the former linoleum capital of the UK. Enthusiastically gushing about the town revamp, development of the Two Rivers shopping park – and lets not forget the pedestrianisation of the High Street – shopping-centre.co.uk goes on to describe in great detail a great glazed mall entrance that has apparently become a focal point for shoppers in the town of Staines (named after the old English word for stones, due to a long lost monolith site in nearby Stanwell).

And the stats are certainly bearing that out. Centre manager Peter Miles confirms the irrefutable evidence that upon finishing the first phase of refurbishment “quite a lot of retailers reported an increase in trading above their normal expectations!” And you just can’t argue with that.

Who knows - maybe the launch of LocateTV really will put this rapidly growing hotspot on the international cultural map.

Sid