Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford has been honoured with an open-topped bus tour in his home town of Woburn Sands, near Milton Keynes.

BBC: Greg Rutherford

Swindon, a Victorian railway town in Wiltshire, and Milton Keynes, a chunk of American suburbia in the middle of Buckinghamshire, are growing just as fast (see chart).

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