Council bans jet skis from slipway

THE launching of jet skis at a North Devon tourist resort is set to be banned.

Torridge councillors yesterday backed calls made by Cllr Len Ford for the ban in Appledore due to the ‘chaos’ they are currently causing.

Cllr Ford said that he wasn’t being a ‘killjoy’ and that there were alternative locations that jet skis could be launched from, but that someone could be injured or killed unless the safety concerns were addressed.

The Community and Resources Committee voted by seven votes to two, with one abstention, to close the Churchfields slipway to jet ski launches.