MP calls for funding aid after ‘devastating’ wildfires on the moors

CALLS have been made for Government relief schemes to be extended in the aftermath of devastating wildfires in North Yorkshire.

- By GARETH LIGHTFOOT

According to Alison Hume, the MP for Scarborough and Whitby, the Government should make grants available following fires such as the blaze on Langdale Moor last Summer.

In August, a major incident was declared when a fire broke out on the moor, near RAF Fylingdales. At its height the blaze covered 10 square miles.

Ms Hume has been pressing for relief schemes, which are currently available for flood-hit areas, to be extended to cover wildfires.