"But within two days Hutchins, who operates out of an English coastal town, tweeted that he had woken up to discover that his picture was on the front page of a newspaper and since then has become the centre of a media storm." (The Guardian.)
Does Hutchins operate out of town, i.e. being outside the English coastal town, or not necessarily?
His base of operations is in an English coastal town.
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It's a wordy, clumsy way of saying operates from or based in an English coastal town.