A LOCAL authority responsible for one of Britain’s most rural areas looks set to launch an intensive campaign to educate people about the dangers of releasing sky lanterns and helium balloons. North Yorkshire County Council is also set to lobby MPs and one of its former members – Education Secretary Gavin Williamson – to ensure every child is taught about the potentially deadly flying objects after concluding localised bans would have limited effects. An inquiry of the authority’s partnerships scrutiny committee heard how action was urgently needed as farmers were regularly seeing their animals suffer appalling deaths after ingesting the balloons or wires from the lanterns.
GAVIN WILLIAMSON: the Secretary of State for Education A LOCAL authority responsible for one of Britain’s most rural areas looks set to launch an intensive campaign to educate people about the dangers of releasing sky lanterns and helium balloons. North Yorkshire County Council is also set to lobby MPs and one of its former members – Education Secretary Gavin Williamson – to ensure every child is taught about the potentially deadly flying objects after concluding localised bans would have limited effects. An inquiry of the authority’s partnerships scrutiny committee heard how action was urgently needed as farmers were regularly seeing their animals suffer appalling deaths after ingesting the balloons or wires from the lanterns.
Residents in rural areas in the north of the Scarborough borough are being warned to be extra vigilant during the coronavirus lockdown as the number of cases remain high.