People comparing a famous UK seaside town to places like Syria and North Korea have been told to pack it in. It is “getting boring now”, a regional reporter has said.

Joe Griffin, a Lincolnshire Live journalist wrote: “Skegness has faced an abundance of criticism over the years and this negativity has now reached absurd new heights. It’s about time it all stopped.”

He added that he knows it’s “not everyone’s cup of tea”, but to compare it with a country that is considered to have the “worst…