WITH
HOLIDAY-MAKERS DESERTING BRITISH BEACH RESORTS IN FAVOUR OF OVERSEAS BREAKS,
SOME SEASIDE TOWNS ARE SUFFERING SEVERE SOCIAL BREAKDOWNS WITH LEVELS OF SCHOOL
FAILURE, TEENAGE PREGNANCY, LONE PARENTING AND WORKLESSNESS TO RIVAL THE
INNER-CITY AREAS. i, monday 5th
august.
A report,
poetically named ‘Turning the Tide’, calls for action to revive the towns of
Rhyl, Margate, Clacton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth and Blackpool. Can tides ever be
turned?
In other news
(in the same newspaper on the same page) we hear that postcards were the most
popular form of contact during the last three decades of the 20th
century for those on holiday.
This is my
postcard from Margate.
