""Blackpool Pleasure Beach is the No.1 British tourist attraction.

I reckon they've forgotten there's a difference between an attraction which pulls in large numbers of English Lager Lout day trippers and a real Tourist attraction which draws in US dollars, Japanese Yen, and a multitude of other foreign currencies amounting to many millions of pounds sterling every year.

If you find that difficult to believe, go look at Buck House at eleven am weekdays, Tower Hill, Hampton Court, or Windsor Castle, and count the obvious foreigners.

I simply don't believe that Americans and Japanese come halfway round the world to visit Blackpool, or Alton Towers, when they have far better in the United States and Japan, and with better weather too.

In point of fact, I don't think you would find many in either country who have ever heard of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Don T.