Why is Great Yarmouth so deprived?

And while 20% of England was judged as deprived in 2010, for the 31 larger English seaside towns the figure leaped to 26.9%. read more

Can this really be the same Great Yarmouth that Daniel Defoe wrote about in the 1720s, his only criticism being “that tho’ it is very rich and increasing in wealth and trade, and consequently in people, there is not room enough to enlarge the town by building, which would be certainly done much more than it is, but that the river [the Yare] on the land-side prescribes them”. read more

And while 20% of England was judged as deprived in 2010, for the 31 larger English seaside towns the figure leaped to 26.9%. In Great Yarmouth on the east coast, as an example, 33% of residents have no qualifications and one neighbourhood has the highest rate of 15-17-year-old pregnancy in the country. read more