Local Backup consuming disk space

Hi all;
My MBA has only 128Gb space and 25% of this is occupied by something that I am being shown is 'Backup'. This is nothing that I, as far as am aware, have set. The machine was update to Yosemite recently and I am not aware if this space was the same or not when I had Mavericks.
I would appreciate comments and notes on how to clear and reclaim this space.
Regards
I.

When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.

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