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Overlooked seaside town hopes to rival Cornwall and is seeing a 'second wind'

Despite being once blasted as one of the worst seaside towns in the entire UK, when Mirror reporter Julia Banim travelled to Morecambe in Lancashire two years ago, she found herself charmed by the locals

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