Naturist Max Pratt on BBC Radio Humberside 2nd June 2008

Fraisthorpe United Naturists FUN!
Max Pratt BBC Radio Humberside
with Andy Comfort on the Breakfast Show,
at 7:36am on Monday 2nd June 2008.

Max Pratt
maxpratt@hotmail.com
Sheffield South Yorkshire
England United Kingdom
Tuesday 24th June 2008

Fraisthorpe United Naturists FUN!

Fraisthorpe Naturists Yahoo! Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fraisthorpe_Naturists

Facebook event page for Fraisthorpe Funday: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17432273639
RSVP yourself as a guest to our Facebook event page! Fraisthorpe Funday Sunday, 22nd June 2008.

BBC Look North news, Monday, 2nd June 2008: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7431870.stm

Yorkshire Post, page 3, Monday 23rd June 2008: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Naturists-brave-the-elements-to.4211682.jp

Here is the text of the article:
'Naturists brave the elements to stake their claim to beach'.
Yorkshire Post - Yorkshire's National Newspaper
Published Date: 23 June 2008
By journalist Mark Branagan

GALE force winds yesterday didn't deter naturists who were determined to fight a ban on baring all at a Yorkshire beach.

East Riding Council has outraged those who regard the human body as a thing of beauty by putting up notices on Fraisthorpe Beach, near Bridlington, warning nude sun bathers that they face prosecution.

Yesterday members of Fraisthorpe United Naturists (FUN) including teachers, a university lecturer, farmer and solicitor staged a lie down protest on the sands.

They claim the signs were a gimmick by local Tories to drum up publicity before the local elections and are a slur on a movement which has been coming to Fraisthorpe since before the Second World War.

At its peak in the 1960s before the advent of the package holiday the beach was said to have attracted some 500 naturists.

Yesterday, there were only 10 which FUN leaders said underlined the apprehension produced by the signs as well as the threat of being spied on by perverts.

John Wymark-Hoar, a York- based drug addition counsellor and a regional leader of British Naturism, said: "This is the only naturist beach in Yorkshire and we are going to defend it forever."

But Angela Norrie, of West Ayton, near Scarborough, said: "I think what is going on here is wrong. It is not the naturists that come here that the cause the problems but those who come here for different reasons."

Group spokesman Max Pratt, 34, of Dore, Sheffield, said: "We are being persecuted as a minority in a way they would not dare treat an ethnic or religious group."

But some residents claimed the naturists were part of an ongoing problem of anti-social behaviour on the beach, which also included people seeking casual sexual encounters.

One said: "People who think the naturists are being persecuted should ask why the council closed down the naturist section of the beach in the first place - because it is impossible to police and because of everything else going on down there."

An East Riding Council spokesman said: "There is no designated naturist beach within the East Riding. If any organisation wishes to have an event on council land they need to obtain a licence to do so."

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Last Updated: 23 June 2008 9:09 AM
Source: Yorkshire Post
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Location: Yorkshire, England, UK.

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