The Cornish resort may be the picturebook seaside town but, through a desolate winter and a crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soul
I’m sure they quoted one instance of a holiday home owner donating all surplus food at the end of their stay.
Even so, some visitors donate. Wallis says a Swiss couple give £500 each year. People ring and ask him to collect excess food from their holiday cottage when they leave.
The thing that made me the saddest about this was when someone said that the second home owners don’t donate to the food bank.
I’m sure they quoted one instance of a holiday home owner donating all surplus food at the end of their stay.