British Holiday Parks

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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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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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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