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ALEICESTER fun-seeker has declared WAR on the British countryside following a Holiday From Hell in the Yorkshire Dales. And now former key-cutter Dougie Doig, 68, has started an online petition calling for the countryside - the large, irregular green areas between towns and cities - to be cancelled!
As told to Vaginia Discharge
In July, Doig - a familiar face to thousands after his 29-year stint behind the counter of Mr Minit in the Haymarket bus station precinct-set out with his wife Eileen to spend a week on a farm campsite near Settle. It was to be the couple’s first Great British holiday this century.
“It was a huge change for us,” says Dougie, 68. “We’ve been to Spain every year since 1983, barring one odd fortnight in Kosovo back in the late nineties. But given the current cost of living crisis, we decided to tighten our belts and stay in Britain this year.”
“We also felt strongly that it was our patriotic duty, what with everything that’s going
