Bingley Five Rise gets cash

BRITISH Waterways has awarded £50,000 to prepare a plan to encourage visitors to Bingley Five Rise.

Consultant Marion Blockley is working with British Waterways and the Airedale Waterways Partnership to prepare an activity plan to encourage tourists to the staircase, relating:

"British Waterways have some funding and they want to use it to make the Five and Three Rise Locks more interesting to visitors.

"We are looking to create interest in the whole stretch of canal, through Saltaire and Dowley Gap into Bingley, and to do that we need to explain to people why the Five and Three Rise Locks are so significant."