Bournemouth rides a new wave The south coast's best-known retirement town has reinvented itself as Britain's trendiest seaside resort, says Paul Mansfield

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: July 25, 2004| Author: Paul Mansfield | Copyright information

It's surfing, but not as we know it. On Bournemouth's Southbourne beach a young guy with bleached blond locks is boasting about a recent trip to Newquay. "I was pulling some sick turns when this goofy-footed quimby dropped in on me." - translation: I was surfing well when an annoying novice attempted to share the same wave. But no- one is listening to him.

Instead attention is focused on the half-dozen or so people in the sea, most of them in their thirties. One by one they rise up and...

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