Yorkshire anyday. The Mirror has nothing to equal it (although it did have Giles when he was alive and working).

We have the same problem in our little ex mining village in NW Leics. The imposition of one housing estate where the pit head used to be (until Maggie decided that the UK didn't need manual workers, and Hezza defended the miners before breakfast, dinner, tea, supper and his bed time snack - well they do say attack is the best form of defence!) increased the village by 25%. Who bought all these luxurious homes? Brummies. Some have settled in, and become part of the village community, while others either want to turn it into little Birmingham or bugger off back down the M42 after a couple of years, and take the massive profit with them.

Which is all probably very hypocritical, since our house was three two-up-two-down cottages put together in the eighties. But we couldn't afford to buy it now.