Yorkshire Beaches The Best Whilst Staying In A Yorkshire Hotel
It can be confirmed that Yorkshire beaches have been acknowledges as some of the best and cleanest beaches in the world.
Yorkshire has been awarded five Blue Flag awards by anti-litter charity Keep Britain Bang Tidy because of the beaches high standard of cleanliness, safety , environmental management and water quality.
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.
Scarborough’s North Bay, Filey and Whitby all received Blue Flags as well as Hornsea and Withernsea who gained back their status after missing out last year.
Bridlington were the only major beach to miss out on the coveted awards, not reaching the mark by only a fraction.
In total fifteen beaches received the Quality Coast Awards (QCA’s) for high standards of beach management, including Bridlington North and South, Robin Hoods Bay, Sandsend and Runswick Bay , giving Yorkshire a higher concentration of QCA’s than any other region in the UK.
North Yorkshire’s beaches haven’t had it all their way though with the news that Yorkshire Water has been fined after Runswick Bay had sewage pollution released into it’s beck accidentally.
It has emerged that Yorkshire water has being fined in excess of £75,000 after it admitted to releasing sewage into the beck at Runswick Bay accidentally.
Since then the water company has taken full responsibility and made vast improvements to their station to make sure it will not happen again.
There was also further bad new to be heard as it was revealed on Sunday by national newspaper that new quality standards coming into force in 2015 could lead to swimming being banned in Staithes, Robin Hoods Bay and Bridlington South.
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