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Yorkshire today mounted a cheeky bid to take the crown for having Europe’s cleanest beaches from the holder, Portugal. A five-year programme along 50 miles of largely sandy shoreline, from the artists’ village of Staithes to Withernsea, on the crumbling coast of Holderness, will also clean up Europe’s secondary category of rural beaches at coves such as Boggle Hole near Robin Hood’s Bay.

I must have walked a mile down the snow-covered road before I noticed. There was so much else to watch for besides what lay at my feet: on the right, icy slopes rising to a girdle of pines and craggy summits beyond; on the left, Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, plunging down to the unseen river before rising through snowy wastes and clumps of naked aspens to yet more forests and mountains. And there was the howling.

It was billed as a masterclass: a chance for the hospitality trade to learn how to get the most out of the global travel review site TripAdvisor over lunch at a luxury hotel in London.

In the end, TripAdvisor staff ended up facing a barrage of tricky questions from hoteliers, bed and breakfast owners and restaurateurs who expressed anger and frustration at the way the website operates.

Barack Obama has launched a strong defence of America’s latest bout of quantitative easing, ahead of the G20 summit in Korea.

With many commentators predicting heated discussions between world leaders when they meet in Seoul later this week, Obama hit back at claims that the Federal Reserve risked destabilising the world economy through the $600bn. I’ll be back. You can’t keep the Democrats out of the White House forever, and when they get in, I’m back on the streets, with all my criminal buddies. Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution. Can’t you people take the law into your own hands? I mean, we can’t be policing the entire city!

He’s about to take to our screens again, playing another exaggerated version of himself in a BBC series, The Trip, in which he and Rob Brydon embark on a gastronomic tour of the north of England on the premise that Coogan has landed a gig as guest restaurant reviewer for the Observer. The Trip is directed by Michael Winterbottom, who was so taken with the improvised off-set relationship between Coogan and Brydon in his 2005 film version of Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story that he wanted to give them their own vehicle.

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