YORKSHIRE Water should be commended for bowing to public pressure regarding its safety signs at Top Withens.

The company has agreed to replace its bright-blue notices with something more in keeping with the landscape at the Brontë shrine.

Whatever your views on the derelict farmhouse and the legitimacy of its association with Wuthering Heights, the fact remains the moorland spot is visited by thousands of people a year because of those claimed connections.

And the outpouring of concern following the installation of the signs is evidence enough, were it needed, that people do care.

While the safety message does need to be put across to visitors, we await with interest to see what appears now.