Jack Luxton is a former Devon farmer who now runs a caravan park on the Isle of Wight. Life, on the surface, is prosperous enough. BSE is just a memory and the foot-and-mouth debacle has merely vindicated his decision to start afresh. The holidaymakers at his site may grumble about ‘the dire state of the world’ but Jack and his wife Ellie have their annual fortnight in the Caribbean to look forward to. Not bad for someone who’d never left the county until ten years ago, who’d barely seen the sea. 

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