Ilkley As I write this I can hear the distant drone of the helicopter as it circles overhead, trying to douse the flames and to help the fire fighting up on Ilkley Moor. The fire has lasted for days. On Thursday I went up to take these pictures and was shocked by the scale of the fire. Two fires were on the plateau of the moor, the smoke obscuring the view ahead. And that’s the point of today’s blog. I didn’t travel far for this - 30 minutes climb up from my parent’s house. But the billowing smoke, flames and boiling clouds on what is a damp place, a water source, is a shock. Ilkley Moor is an important place, a focus of Yorkshire’s identity. When large swathes go up in smoke, the damage will
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