Once synonymous with decline and despair, the UK ’s seaside towns are getting a welcome cash injection.

Ambitious regeneration projects are breathing new life into a number of the country’s coastal gems – and given the increasing cost of flights, it couldn’t have come at a better time.

These investments conveniently also coincide with a wave of obsession for all things nostalgia, from low rise jeans to vinyl records.

National treasure Danny Dyer is among those harking back to the era of domestic travel being the norm, saying he hopes his upcoming show The Dyers’ Caravan Park will ‘save the great British holiday’.

Give it a few years, and even the cynics may end up swapping Seville for Skegness, the Balearics for Bognor, or the Greek Islands for Great Yarmouth.

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