I love festivals and attend a few each year. I am 58 and my partner 50 but our vote would be for the beach. Families are really facing hardship and the beach has been an amazing innovation to support kids and their parents having fun in their communities with needing to spend a fortune. — A. JOHNSTON, via email. …. Newark Festival or Newark-on Sea? Although I have attended neither of these events it was not entirely clear whether Newark Town Council received any finance towards either of these events from Newark and Sherwood District Council or from local businesses and industrial concerns. If…