Holiday 2012: Our caravan (sleeps up to six) right beside the sea at Exmouth (Devon) and part of the multi-facility Devon Cliffs Holiday Park, will end its 40^th year of provision of holidays for journalists And their dependants and Norman Walters – who has run it since the beginning – says he will be happy to have 2012 applications in the Christmas mail (!) or earlier. Address: 10 Westbury Court Road, Bristol BS9 3BU; email norman@walters165.fsnet.co.uk (norman null@null walters165 NULL.fsnet NULL.co NULL.uk) or tel. 0117 9503747.

The caravan, which is four years old, is open from Easter until the end of October.