In this masterpiece of social surrealism, the inhabitants of a northern town display their lives of noisy desperation.

But his poetry was of the time, too - witty, acerbic, dipping with the angst and anger of life in a poverty-stricken northern town.

For too long it has been known only as that quaint northern town with its one designer shop.

This looks like a lazy stereotyping of an unfashionable northern town club.

Not so my clients in this northern town, who could only just manage financially and who simply could not afford to separate.