Wednesday 3 October 2007

Costa Del Confusion

In the past few weeks two leading national Tories have dropped in on Torbay to boost tourism.

They must have wondered what they had got themselves into.Ann Milton, then shadow minister for tourism, was the first VIP guest when she lunched with Mayor Nick Bye, hoteliers and other business leaders.

The lunch was organised by Marcus Wood, the Tory's prospective parliamentary candidate for Torbay. It was hailed as a positive meeting with the shadow minister quoted as saying: "It was quite exciting speaking to Nick Bye, who clearly has some good ideas to help the tourism industry."

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