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Article: 'Benidorm? It's a bit more upper class now'; In the Eighties Benidorm was the destination from hell. Emma Parker Bowles (right) went to see if anything has changed.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2001
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Byline: EMMA PARKER BOWLES
STEVE knocks back another shot of tequila and scratches his sunburned shoulder. He is not enjoying his holiday. "I've only been here for 48 hours and I've been robbed, cracked over the knuckles by a policeman's truncheon and shot twice with a ball-bearing gun."
To illustrate his point, he drops his trousers to reveal two circular blue bruises on his white buttocks. "I am out on my own tonight because my mate Karl is not feeling very well. He was clubbed over the head with a baseball bat by a Scouser earlier today." However, he soon cheers up when three pretty young girls totter past in short skirts and boob tubes. "They're ...