Posted by Ben | Posted in The Seaside | Posted on 27-08-2009
Popular seaside town Clacton-on-Sea is enjoying it’s 18th annual Air Show this Thursday/Friday and with some 120,000 visitors expected, local shopkeepers and beach-front vendors are anticipating a bumper trade.
Stars of the show will likely be the world-renowned RAF Red Arrows display team, who will perform aerial stunts with pinpoint accuracy in the sky above the heads of an eager crowd.
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Posted by Ben | Posted in The Seaside | Posted on 26-08-2009
The much anticipated Colwyn Bay ravamp outline has gone on public display by Conwyn County Borough Council. The Bay Life programme includes coastal defences, a sports centre aimed at excellence and the relocation of council offices to the towns centre.
A spokesperson for Conwy council had this to say:
“We believe these three initiatives will be a catalyst to drive investment and improvement.”
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Posted by Ben | Posted in Caravans | Posted on 24-08-2009
Scores of angry people gathered at the local town hall last Thursday to discuss the goings-on at Lossiemouth’s Silver Sands caravan park - a popular resort on the Moray Firth. It appears that many of the caravans have been sold “several times over” leaving those involved with losses of up to £10,000 and tense confrontations as people try to gain access to units they genuinely believe are theirs.
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Posted by Ben | Posted in General Stuff | Posted on 21-08-2009
The August bank holiday is rapidly approaching, but have you booked your hire car for that weekend getaway yet? If not, do so immediately! carrentals.co.uk have been watching the state of the car hire industry for the past month and warns of severe shortages over the national away day, leading to vastly hiked prices, sell-outs and many a frayed temper BHP would imagine!
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Posted by Ben | Posted in The Seaside | Posted on 21-08-2009
New figures out this week have shown a steep incline in unemployment levels in some of Britains once thriving seaside resorts.
Included in the worst hit leaderboard are BHP HQ neighbours Clacton-on-Sea and Southend, both located on the Essex coastline, which have each seen unemployment figures soar by over 70% since last summer. It’s a worrying time for anyone living in these areas, especially school leavers. We asked a local known as Adam what he thought of the situation:
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Posted by Ben | Posted in Holiday Parks | Posted on 20-08-2009
BT, in partnership with Wicom, have announced that they’ve installed Wi-Fi access points across a number of British Holiday destinations. The wi-fi wil be free to use by BT Broadband customers and covers 77 camping and caravanning club sites, plus three Pontin’s holiday parks and a series of Coastfields’ Leisure sites.
With some 50k visitors expected over the upcoming August bank holiday, BT expects the Wi-Fi hotspots to be fully taken advantage of, with O2 iPhone customers as well as mobile broadband users with inclusive Wi-Fi minutes also being able to connect for free.
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Posted by Ben | Posted in Summer | Posted on 19-08-2009
Today was supposed to be one of the hottest days of the year so far, with the Met Office predicting some 30 degrees of the celsius where BHP HQ is located. Well, I can safely say that it didn’t reach anywhere near that kind of temperature, I would hazard a guess at it faring little more than 25 degrees at a push.
Less of our moaning though, we decided instead to put our day to good use instead. With this in mind, we concocted a very technical BHP algorithm to rank the top 5 best places to be on a balmy mid August day in the British Isles, so sit back and enjoy:
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Posted by Ben | Posted in General Stuff | Posted on 14-08-2009
You may have seen the new Channel 4 series entitled How The Other Half Live already, but if not you missed a great episode last night. It featured non-other than industry bigwig and Park Holidays UK (PHUK?) owner Peter Bull, and just goes to show the sort of wedge the holiday parks are raking in day in day out. He’s said to be personally worth upwards of £40m.
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Posted by Ben | Posted in Holiday Parks | Posted on 13-08-2009
When it comes to ensuring the family have a good time on your summer break, there is really only one set of individuals to consider: the kids.
If you’re pride and joy are having fun, then invariably, so will you - but we all know that when it comes to leaving the nest it’s a real battle to decide what to take and what to leave at home. Here’s the BHP guide to what childrens toys stay, and which go along for the ride.
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Posted by Ben | Posted in Holiday Parks, Hotels | Posted on 11-08-2009
UK family holiday giant Butlins has announced the imminent opening of it’s new £20m hotel aimed almost exclusively at the under 16s.
The company, started by Billy Butlin back in 1936, will install innovative features at the new Bognor Regis hotel such as the countries first snow cave, disco lifts and even singing showers. The team here at BHP can think of a few Mums and Dads that would probably enjoy the attractions just as much - if not more - than the kids!
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