Has this former Devon seaside idyll become the crack cocaine capital of Britain? As locals beg for police to help, JANE FRYER visits a town ravaged by county lines drugs gangs, violent crime and feral teens

 Has this former Devon seaside idyll become the crack cocaine capital of Britain? As locals beg for police to help, JANE FRYER visits a town ravaged by county lines drugs gangs, violent crime and feral teens

By 8am on a wet Wednesday, Ilfracombe High Street is already thick with the sweet scent of marijuana. It comes from under the arches beneath the old town hall, where, most mornings at around this tim…