Harrogate

"I think year on year it is getting busier and busier, people from outside Harrogate are flocking here to see it," she says.

The photographer, who lives in Harrogate, says she visited the country for sakura season and has spotted visual similarities in her local park.

Jordanna Vallance and Fran Addis, both from Harrogate, are picnicking in the sun and plan to return each year to photograph their babies in the blossom.

Long rows of candy floss-coloured cherry blossoms are in season in Harrogate, with the short-lived natural phenomenon creating a vivid tourist destination.

The NEU agreed at its conference in Harrogate this week that it would hold a formal ballot on strike action if the offer remains "unacceptable", or if no extra funding is announced.