Outdoor Education Advisers' Panel

A council has been found not guilty of breaching health and safety law over the death of a boy who drowned on a school caving trip.

Council cleared over boy's cave drowning death in Dales

Joe went missing as his party made their way out of the cave system
A council has been found not guilty of breaching health and safety law over the death of a boy who drowned on a school caving trip.

Joe Lister, 14, died when floodwater swept through Manchester Hole Cave in the Yorkshire Dales in November 2005.

He was one of 11 Tadcaster Grammar School pupils visiting the cave.

North Yorkshire County Council, which owns and runs Bewerley Park outdoor centre, had denied charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974).