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B est for: Families with pre- school children , families with special access needs Worst for: luxury seekers A sunny morning in July and the sea was glistening gently beyond the rooftops. I was drinking my coffee on the balcony when my eldest daughter, Maya, arrived to survey the scene. “I feel,” she observed, ever the aesthete, “like we’re in France.” But this was not Biarritz. Welcome to Butlin’s, Bognor-sur-mer. With the plummeting pound forcing European villa holidays out of our budget this year, we have turned to a British holiday village to bridge the post-Brexit-vote gap. For a generation raised on low-cost flights and multi-lingual instructors at the kids club, it’s a change of pace. Butlin's marked its 80th anniversary last year, and its aesthetic and activities have changed significantly over the years Credit: © Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo/Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo For me, however, a mid- week break offered an airport-free, off-peak-value escape, plus a chanc...

Five persons suspected of ramming a van into people in Cambrils in Spain have been shot dead, police said hours after 13 people were killed in a similar incident in Barcelona. 7-year-old Sydney boy Julian Cadman is missing after the Barcelona terror attack . SUSPECTS in Spain’s twin terror attacks had been planning an even bigger assault than the deadly car rampages they carried out, police said, as distressing details emerged of families torn apart in the horror. Police said they shot dead five “suspected terrorists” who had knocked pedestrians down in the Catalan seaside resort of Cambrils in a second attack in the early hours of Friday, and arrested four others as Spain reeled from the deadly violence . Catalonia’s regional police identified three of the suspects who were killed as Moroccan nationals. They were Moussa Oukabir, 17, Said Aallaa, 18, and Mohamed Hychami, 24. Police said they suspect 12 people of involvement in the attacks: the five who were killed, four who wer...