Visitors to a Skipton restaurant will be shaded from the sun when they dine al fresco this summer - with the aid of a sail from a trans-Atlantic racing yacht.

Ian Ackroyd, pictured, boss of Napiers Restaurant, has used the giant foresail, measuring 40ft by 41ftby 21ft, to create a huge canopy over a newly-extended forecourt. He bought the sail, which has twice been used in trans-Atlantic races, from a chandler in Southampton and has even installed a mast-style wooden post to keep it in place. "I thought it would be ideal as a canopy for the extended terrace, which can be a real suntrap, with temperatures soaring to more than 90 degrees in the heat of the summer," he said.