A WENSLEYDALE mill is to feature in the second series of the BBC's popular Restoration programme.

Viewers will be able to vote for vital restoration work to be carried out on the eighteenth century Gayle Mill, near Hawes.

Funding has been raised to convert the building into a learning centre but the North-East Civic Trust needs to find funds to restore its 250 year-old water system, one of the oldest still remaining.

The new series starts on Tuesday.

The grade II listed mill is one of the buildings to feature in English Heritage's 2004 edition of the Buildings at Risk Register.

Nationally, 94 sites have been taken off the register after their future was secured.

Six were in the North-East but the region has the highest number of at risk buildings after seven new ones were added, pushing the total to 124.

The region is the only one of nine in the country where this year's figure is higher than the original, but officials are not alarmed.

Peter Bromley, director for English Heritage in the North-East said: "Even though we have one more building on the register than last year, the picture is still quite positive.

"Of the seven new entries, two have just recently been designated or upgraded.

"Also reassuring is the number of local authorities that are about to embark on compiling their own Buildings at Risk registers for grade II buildings, including Alnwick, County Durham, Gateshead and Newcastle."

North Yorkshire has 65 sites out of a total of 133 throughout Yorkshire on the list - down from 176 five years ago.

The register lists nearly 1,500 of the nation's most vulnerable grade 1 and II assets, and English Heritage said it was an invaluable measure of what the nation stood to lose if a future could not be found for them.

Chief executive Simon Thurley said: ''The nation's most important historic buildings should not have to reach such a state of decay before action is taken."

Among the North-East buildings removed from the list were St Brandon's Church in Brancepeth.

Grey Towers House in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough, is still on the register but is classed as a success story.

The 1865-built former sanatorium has been empty for 20 years and suffered several vandal attacks, but is now being converted into apartments.

After one wrecking spree, wallpaper by influential Victorian designer E W Goodwin was uncovered. It has now been rescued and restored, and is on display at the nearby Dorman Museum.