Scathing reviews have dubbed a once-booming seaside town one of the country's worst. Rhyl, in Denbighshire, north east Wales, was one of the UK's most popular resorts.
However, it scored poorly in the Telegraph's latest Seaside Gentrification Index. It looks at 20 classic resorts to see how they've adapted, or not, over the past three decades from air quality to high streets.
Rhyl was given a brutal blow when it was summed up as having: “no past, no arts or entertainment, no fun”. In fact, it ranked so badly it received just five points out of 100 and placed the town at the bottom of the list.
This is some 93 points below the top resort, St Ives in Cornwall, the Mirror reports. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features The once-thriving town has been surprisingly described as “Blackpool after a neutron bomb”.