THOUSANDS of Britons are in deep denial about the true nature of the seaside areas they are flocking to in the hot weather.

A desperate need to enjoy any sort of summer weather is stopping people confronting the truth about the various bleak hell-holes they are visiting in a state of delirious joy.

Office worker Kelly Howard said: “I’ve got the day off so naturally I rushed to a deprived town where the only choice of food is Wetherspoons, chippies and Iceland. These dry chips are delicious!

“Sure, the beach is rammed with drunk people and litter, there’s raw sewage floating by near the beach and my car’s been vandalised by local youths. But I’m at the seaside! Yay!”

Psychiatrist Oliver O’Connor said: “This is a level of denial usually seen only in the most hard-to-treat cases of alcoho

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