'Beautiful' town hailed in New York newspaper

TIMES are unquestionably hard and almost every day, the financial markets bring us further gloomy news.

So it's good to hear that our transatlantic cousins rate the far west of Cornwall and St Ives in particular as the 'UK's last great bargain'.

Writing in the New York Post, Alex Robertson Textor says American visitors to London 'have collected many a horror story'.

"It is perversely therapeutic to catalogue the outrageous prices for things: $50 for breakfast, $250 for a grubby shoebox of a hotel room and $8 for a single ride on the Tube," he writes.

But Cornwall is a 'must-visit' which remains relatively affordable for Americans and St Ives is in 'the first tier of beautiful Cornish seaside towns, an art colony turned beach town whose narrow streets throng with tourists'... more>