IMovie help please?

Hi,
Downloaded iMovie and having trouble with the holiday theme. It is supposed to dot your geographical location but the closest it can get to the West Midlands is Manchester! This is terrible. I live a long long way away from Manchester and it doesn't have Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire or the West Mids in its location directory! Is this something I am doing wrong??

thanks, except the help article on the support site is incorrect.
It ztates that you can insert a custom location by clicking the "other" buttong, but this isnt true. If you type in a place that is not in the directory then it will not allow you to add it and I don't understand why it's having a problem with this. My location is found easily enough with google maps, yet to the iMovie app, I live 60 miles away!

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