Lake District cafe owner fights holiday lets with plan to ’buy back’ town

Cafe owner Chinty Turnbull: ‘Holiday homes are fine but, you know, enough is enough.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Chinty Turnbull fully expects people will say she’s taken leave of her senses as she outlines her bold plan of action. She wants to reclaim a Lake District honeypot town – “buy it back, brick by brick”.

“I think a lot of people think I am mad, yes,” she said. “What’s that scene in Jerry Maguire when everyone is saying yay, great, good for you! And they’re all going ‘oh my God’.”