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The Berlin Wall of Cleethorpes

A lady called Enid once wrote in a guesthouse book I saw, ‘Cleethorpes is like an acceptable piece of costume jewellery that you were initially going to throw out but have taken to wearing for low-key lunch meetings.’

This twinkling seaside secret of the east coast is home to some unlikely provisional world records. It was to be home to the world’s tallest artificial palm-tree statue – a big fat stonking symbol of the

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