RISHI Sunak is assisting villagers in their fight to protect the landscape of a little-known Yorkshire dale during the upgrade of a major road. The Richmond MP wrote to highways chiefs after being contacted by East Layton residents concerned about the visual impact of the £1bn dualling of the A66 Trans-Pennine road on the environment of Holmedale, the local name for the area which lies south of the existing east-west trunk route. He raised a number of issues with Highways England which East and West Layton Parishes had brought to his attention about the Stephen Bank to Carkin Moor stretch.