Firefighters tackling blaze on Ilkley Moor, in West Yorkshire
Firefighters are battling another blaze on Ilkley Moor, in West Yorkshire, a month after a devastating fire caused significant damage in the area.
Ten fire engines were called to the affected area and people were urged to keep away. West Yorkshire fire and rescue service later said the fire was largely extinguished.
Continue reading...25.5C recorded, with 27C expected on Monday, which would make UK warmer than Morocco
Britons experienced the hottest day of the year so far on Saturday, and the hottest Easter bank holiday weekend for 70 years, as the temperature hit 25.5C (77.9F) in Gosport in Hampshire.
The temperature is expected to rise even further on Monday to 27C, making the sunniest spots in the UK warmer than most of Europe, Algeria and Morocco.
Continue reading...Ron McMillan has come under fire over handling of former chief executive’s departure
The chair of Yorkshire’s tourism body is expected to resign after an expenses scandal surrounding its former chief executive Sir Gary Verity.
Welcome to Yorkshire’s Ron McMillan will reportedly tender his resignation at a board meeting on Friday.
Continue reading...Welcome to Yorkshire calls in investigators over its boss Gary Verity’s expenses
The Yorkshire tourism body that has appointed independent investigators to examine its chief executive’s lavish expenses accepted £14.89m in public money over the past five years, the Guardian has learned.
More than half of Welcome to Yorkshire’s (WTY) income derived from the taxpayer between 2013 and 2018 but the organisation will not answer detailed questions about how that money was spent by its boss, Sir Gary Verity, who resigned last Friday.
Continue reading...Hope expressed that fatal collision near Canberra will be ‘catalyst for change’
The death of a renowned British endurance cyclist who was hit by a car while competing in a 3,500-mile race across Australia was avoidable, a coroner has concluded.
Mike Hall, 35, died almost instantly when he was struck from behind by a vehicle on a stretch of the Monaro Highway about 25 miles south of Canberra on 31 March 2017.
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