Plea for delivery drivers to take 'extreme care' after sculpture damaged on Whitehaven harbour

Hundreds of pounds worth of damage was caused to the boating knot monument and surrounding paving stones on Saturday.

A plea for information was posted on social media by the Whitehaven Harbour Commissioners and a company that had been delivering furniture to Blencathra House later came forward to take responsibility for it

It comes just weeks after the harbour's newly refurbished lighthouse was vandalised, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.

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John Baker, CEO of Whitehaven Harbour Commissioners is now asking delivery drivers to take 'extreme care and caution' and has highlighted the possible danger they could pose to pedestrians on the harbour as well.

He said: "From our perspective, we allow access for deliveries across the promenade and we obviously don't want to restrict that access but we do ask that if people are making deliveries on to the promenade, please be extremely careful and take extreme caution.

"It's a public area - we've got people and children and dogs, who all walk along there. It's there for people's enjoyment so we just re-iterate to people who are arranging deliveries or delivering on there, to please show extreme care when they are moving in and out of the harbour."

Mr Baker said they were now waiting for quotes to repair the damage, which he thinks will be sorted "pretty quickly".

He added: "Fortunately, the monument itself is relatively intact, it's just the work we've got to do to get it back securely and get the paving slabs back in. Fortunately, it's not irreparably damaged, so that's positive.

"People need to take that care and caution when they are delivering, in terms of being aware where things are and what speed they should be travelling at along there, as well."

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