Three former Keighley sisters in law met up in Canada recently for the first time in 44 years.

Pictured (from left) with a copy of the KN at Kakabeka falls near Thunder Bay, Ontario, are Marian, June and Ruth Waite, who now live on opposite sides of the world.

The trio were separated when German-born Ruth, 76, married Marian's brother, Alan, and the pair moved to Australia.

Marian, 64, ended up in Canada with husband Eric, leaving June, 72, here in England married to her other brother Ernest.

Although the sisters in law have kept in contact and Marian and June still see each other occasionally, the three have not been together since 1958, the year that saw the Munich air crash, Elvis drafted into the US army and the Everly Brothers top of the pop charts with All I Have To Do Is Dream.

Marian, June and Ruth spent just over a month together in Canada, catching up on old times, before parting company and making their journeys back to various corners of the globe.

June, who now lives in Bingley, remembered how they all used to travel by bus across to Ilkley to the open-air swimming pool with their young families.

She said: "It was really nice, catching up on family. It was as though we had never been apart, something I'll never forget."