Paradise lost in Looe

HOLIDAYING last summer in the South West, we decided one day to take a little excursion, to visit Shipton Abbott on the South Devon coast. So we programmed the sat-nav for Looe, on the south coast of Cornwall.

- Mike Ward previews tonight's TV

We're no fools.

We knew that Shipton Abbott didn't technically exist. Everyone knows that by now, right? It's the fictional setting for BEYOND PARADISE, a cosy crime drama of which Mrs Previews and I have become rather fond, and which starts its third series tonight (BBC1, 8pm). Looe is the real-life place where this show is actually filmed, so we thought it might be nice to take a look around, to see if it's as nice as it looks on the telly. Sadly, we ended up staying there only briefly.