Anybody visiting Blackpool would struggle to recognise anything of any environmental value but it isn't through lack of effort by their public relations department. You'd think you were entering a satellite of the Machynlleth Centre for Alternative Technology .

Take Blackpool's Illuminations, its biggest tourist attraction the switching on of which the Blackpool Gazette claims 100,000 people attended. One of the first tableaux the visitor to the 'lights' will see is The Green Machine.