The rich and the poor often rub shoulders in cities across the world but one of the starkest examples of the wealth gap exists in what passes on this grey rainy day as a typical British seaside resort.
As an increasing number of people are forced to use foodbanks in Poole, this week the coastal town’s outcrop of Sandbanks became the most expensive place to live on the planet.
A four-bedroom bungalow on the exclusive outcrop in Dorset has just sold for £13.5million – making the peninsular even pricier than Monaco, New York and Hong Kong.
