Brits slam seaside town's 'dirty streets and brown sea' and urge tourists to 'run away'

A coastal resort with a long history visited by tens of thousands of people a year has been savaged in a poll of the public.

Skegness has been judged to be the worst seaside town in the country in a poll of more than 3,000 people.

When a railway line offered sun and sea seekers a quick route to the Lincolnshire town in 1873, Skegness's popularity boomed.