Peter Rhodes on a thundery drama, chilled sheets and the coolest character on the seafront

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Beer, Devon. Life can be unfair. Here I am in Devon, plucking words from the great lexicon of summer similes, pretty much to my own agenda, while absorbing a chilled lager.

Meanwhile, in newsrooms across England, some poor devils have been given the poisoned chalice of summer journalism which goes with headlines such as 'How to Survive Boiling Britain'.