NORTH Yorkshire leaders this week urged the Government to get on with opening up the countryside.
Councillors from North Yorkshire County Council and Yorkshire MPs including William Hague told Countryside Minister Alun Michael they want a timetable for lifting restrictions.
They also called for extended business rate relief, re-opening of auction marts and investment in them, more investment to promote rural tourism and review of the 21-day rule on livestock movements.
County council leader, John Weighell said it was three months since the county's last case of foot and mouth and North Yorkshire should be declared officially free of it.
"It is now also time to open paths and bridleways which are still closed, except in particularly higher risk circumstances such as farmyards on former infected premises," he said.
Updated: 11:40 Thursday, November 29, 2001
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