Yorkshire Beaches Confirmed As Some Of The Best In The World
It can be confirmed that Yorkshire beaches have been acknowledges as some of the best and cleanest beaches in the world.
Keep Britain Tidy an anti-litter charity today announced that Yorkshire has 17 award winning beaches this year, including five that have been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag because they have the highest standard of water quality, cleanliness, environmental management and safety.
Who needs Spain when you’ve got some of the best beaches in the world on your doorstep?, now people traveling to a Yorkshire hotel can enjoy clean and scenic beaches.
Hornsea and Withernsea will be pleased to have regained their blue flag status after missing out last year whilst Whitby, Scarborough’s North Bay and Filey retained the coverted award.
Bridlington were the only major beach to miss out on the coveted awards, not reaching the mark by only a fraction.
Other beaches such as Bridlington, Robin Hoods Bay, Sandsend and Runswick Bay all won a Quality Coast Award (QCA) with Yorkshire having a higher concentration then any other region.
However there has been some bad news for North Yorkshire’s beaches after Yorkshire Water was fined over a sewage pollution incident at Runswick Bay.
Yorkshire Water was fined £75,000 after a pump at one of their stations released sewage into the beck at Runswick Bay.
Since the mishap Yorkshire Water has accepted full responsibility and made vast improvements and increased measures to make sure the incident is never repeated.
There was also more damning news for North Yorkshire beaches when it was revealed on Sunday by a big national newspaper that beaches such as Staithes, Robin Hoods Bay and Bridlington South may be unfit to swim by new quality standards coming into force in 2015.
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