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Earlier news The Idler book of Crap Towns The 50 Worse Places to Live in the UK published by Boxtree nominates Portsmouth as Number II. Its disgusting description of the sea as "of the brown variety. It is brown, stinking and full of used condoms and needles all the year round", was also printed in The Big Issue. The homeless man selling The Big Issue outside Waitrose said that he lived under South Parade Pier, and he had never seen any such thing!

We also challenge this: "On the architecture front, Portsmouth boasts many triumphs of the idiocy of the human spirit. The 'Tricorn', a shopping centre, is surely the ugliest concrete monstrosity on the face of the earth"...