Family celebrate award win with water-saving invention

THEY CREATED CLEVER DEVICE CALLED SEALSTOP

- By COREENA FORD

A FARMING family in Yorkshire is celebrating after an ingenious water-saving device they invented scooped a top award.

Belle and Jason Richardson, of Pocklington, came up with SealStop out of a simple frustration - forgotten hoses and flooded yards.

And they say the clever device has come at just the right time to help households, gardeners and smallholders across the UK make every drop count, with the hosepipe ban still in place. The device connects to a standard hosepipe using a quick-connect fitting and literally plugs the gap between water usage and water wastage.