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Arsenal were the talk of the town in the summer, fresh from winning the Women's Champions League for the second time in their history.

"As a small community, a small town, you bump into people you used to work with and there are some who are still struggling to find a new avenue to go down."

You can rent a bike to explore the bike lanes around town and along the beach or take a short walk to the many restaurants, bars and coffee shops along main street.

There to cover those storylines on behalf of the BBC - which had full editorial control - was director John Alexander, born only a few miles away in the County Durham town of Peterlee.

Born in 1965 in a small town in India's western Maharashtra state, Ms Yadav comes from a farming family and is the eldest of five siblings.