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Popular visitor spots Burnsall, Grassington and Linton Falls within the Yorkshire Dales National Park - which regularly attract swimmers - all returned high readings of E.coli when tested in 2020.
Linton Falls
E.coli can cause severe diarrhoea and vomiting and poses a particular risk to children and vulnerable adults.
In a 90-minute virtual town hall meeting held on Thursday, senior Yorkshire Water staff confirmed that the Wharfe Partnership would monitor the overall health of the river and that it has strong government backing .
Keighley s MP, Robbie Moore, believes that the government is keen to roll out more public-led bathing water schemes at other rivers across the country and he has invited environment minister Rebecca Pow to visit Ilkley this summer.
By Philip Sedgwick
The team from The Wensleydale Experience, winners of the best tourism business at the recent Rural Business Awards A WENSLEYDALE-based business is celebrating being named as the country’s best rural tourism company. The Rural Business Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the successes of businesses operating in the UK’s rural economy – a sector which in England alone contributes £261bn to the nation’s economy, nearly a fifth of the country’s total economic activity. Held online for the first time due to the lockdown, in the 2020/21 national final, 12 category winners were announced following a record number of entrants. The winner of the Best Rural Tourism Business was North Yorkshire-based The Wensleydale Experience.
A SCHEME aiming to improve parking at one of the most popular visitor sites in the Dales has been approved, despite features of the scheme being likened to a city centre multi-storey car park. Farmer Michael Daggett told the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s planning committee that its promotion of the unique landscapes had placed “a large burden” on the community of Burnsall and improvements to his popular car park aimed to ease the issues. The meeting heard the car park beside Burnsall’s 17th century stone bridge was a valued community site hosting outdoor sports events, such as cricket, and on busy days saw several hundred cars parking there.
this picture eher PUBLIC relations firm boss Philip Allott has pledged to be “a broad church” and tackle a wide range of concerns after being elected Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire. With a turnout that was the highest since the post of police and crime commissioner was created in 2012, the Conservative candidate took 47 per cent of the first preference votes – falling short of the requisite 50 per cent – but secured re-election on second preference votes. After several recounts it was announced he had secured a total of 83,737 first and second preference votes, over 30,000 more than his nearest rival Labour’s Alison Hume.