Retail Visitor Assistant Maria Smith with Yorks first umbrella dated 1837 at York Castle Museum.Pic Nigel Holland
FIRE crews were called in after a large parasol blew on to the roof of a domestic property in a village near York and risked causing damage and injury.
North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said the firefighters went to Wheldrake at noon today, and used two ladders to move the parasol to a safe location.
Firefighters have also extinguished a fire in Folly Wood, Huby, near Easingwold and another in undergrowth near Valley Gardens in Harrogate, which was believed to have been started deliberately.
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