UK caravan park is top of the plops

A five-star rated caravan park located on the scenic Cambrian Coast in Wales has been named the best in the UK at the annual Loo of the Year Awards.

According to CaravanTimes, the sparkling facilities at the Min-y-Don Holiday Home and Touring Park at Harlech, are far from bog standard. Spread across 15 acres, the park was recently redeveloped at the cost of £2 million which included new toilets, showers, wash hand basins and full disabled facilities.

The park also benefitted from new laundry and dishwashing facilities along with a number of private washrooms, according to the UK website.

The popular park picked up a UK Market Sector Award for best holiday park, the Wales national category award and a gold grading at the awards ceremony held in early December.

Park manager Sue Middleton said that the latest accolades were the culmination of a year of hard work for her and co-manager Richard Hodgson.

"It's absolutely brilliant news for the park and great credit is due to Lesley and Andy Holland, who take care of the cleaning and maintenance of the toilet block," she said.

"We believe it's vitally important that we provide the best toilet facilities for customers and staff."

The UK's annual Loo of the Year Awards have been running for 25 years, and were set up to encourage the highest standards of care when it comes public toilets.

Meanwhile, in other breaking news from the Ol’ Blighty...

A new survey from the UK's Caravaninsurance.com, has showed that caravanners are no longer the most hated road users.

A poll of motorists found tractors were UK drivers’ biggest foe on the road, relegating caravan tourers to second spot.

Commenting on the results, Caravaninsurance.com managing director Philip Alden pointed to the influence of popular BBC television programme Top Gear and its curly-haired politically-incorrect host.

"Perhaps the caravan-exploding antics by the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear chums have done us a favour and got the public thinking that a caravan might be fun to own after all," he said.

According to CaravanTimes, he also argued that it was perhaps time to point the finger at bad drivers more than caravans, as the chief cause of frustration to motorists everywhere.