Byline: JONATHAN BLACKBURN

A "FLAT earth" acitvist who preaches his belief that the world is not round almost every week had his "epiphany" at a North Wales seaside town. Vic Button, 80, holds a rally with his fellow believers in Chester every week.

The former Sealand community councillor won't be shaken from his conviction, despite the overwhelming body of evidence to the contrary. Mr Button became a convert to the flat earth cause on a visit to the promenade in Prestatyn where he leant down to peer out over the railings and across the sea: "If you line up with the railings and look around, it's completely flat."

He told Cheshire Live: "I don't think the world is flat, I know it is," as he stood under the Eastgate Clock in Chester, surrounded by posters that read "Flat Earth, question everything" and "Man has never been to the moon".

Every week, Mr Button and his comrades - sometimes as few as five of them - stage a rally to proselytise the idea of a flat earth to the people of Chester,...