As Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick surmises, the results will only get worse as results trickle in from the more religious hinterland.

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Pete Daly, of distributors Pathe, says Essex Boys is a film noir, with elements of Goodfellas, but in this case instead of the gangsters moving out from New York City to suburban New Jersey, the villains have relocated from the East End to its Essex hinterland.

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Finally, to escape from the beach, head into the hinterland to Casa Susegad, a restored Portuguese villa set in the atmospheric, seldom-visited village of Loutolim.

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Israelis and Arabs approve and deplore the decision for the same reason: the new town, to be called Har Homa, would complete the ring of Jewish-only estates that divide Arab East Jerusalem from its West Bank hinterland, making it extremely hard to see how East Jerusalem could ever be the capital of a Palestinian state.

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The 1980-89 Iran-Iraq war, followed by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent 12 years of sanctions, cut off the emirate from family and trading ties in its natural hinterland.

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We face competition from some of the most vibrant economies in the world, we have no hinterland or natural resources of our own to fall back on, and our future depends on being a dynamic and self-reliant people who strive our utmost to excel and create wealth for ourselves, our families and our society.

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The hinterland of Lahore, capital of Pakistani Punjab, used to stretch from Delhi to Srinagar.

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It leads along the coast and across the Tekke hinterland, through holiday towns and tiny hill villages, following ancient trails from goat tracks to Roman roads.

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The state is attempting to sack some 70m people from state jobs, to bring perhaps 200m people in orderly fashion from countryside to town and to spread some of the coast's prosperity into the dirt-poor hinterland.

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