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The number of Dolphin's visiting the Yorkshire Coast seems to be continuing to increase.

Increasing numbers of the marine mammals are being spotted off the Yorkshire Coastline on an increasingly regular basis.

Stuart Baines runs the Scarborough porpoise Facebook page, he says there are group of seven or eight dolphins who have been cruising up and down the coast for the last few days.

The pod of 8 have been seen touring the coast from Whitby to Bridlington over the last week, with several sightings in both Scarborough's North and South bays.

Stuart Baines says the numbers of dolphins visiting the area has been steadily going up for the last few years.

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