National park guardians are to get a ten per cent rise in funding over the next three years, it has been announced.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is to receive £5.3 million in 2008-09, £200,000 more than in 2007-08, £5.5 million in 2009/10 and £5.6 million in 2010/11.
The Park authority's chairman Carl Lis said: "The increase in money is a credit to the effective lobbying by the National Parks and it is a recognition by the Government of the invaluable contribution that the work of the National Parks can bring."
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