Keighley News readers are being given the chance to attend a royal garden party planned as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

The event, at Harewood House on July 11, is being hosted by the Queen during a two-day visit to Yorkshire and Humberside.

Eight Keighley Labour councillors - who, together with colleagues on Bradford Council, have been allocated tickets for the party to pass on to worthy individuals within their wards - have given the prized tickets to the KN for distribution.

Full details of how readers can receive one of the 48 single tickets will be revealed in next week's paper.

Recipients must live within the Keighley North, South or West wards.

West ward councillor Barry Thorne, deputy leader of the Labour group, said: "All eight of us felt that the fairest and most open way to distribute the tickets would be through the Keighley News, which is read by 80 per cent of the local population.

"As an individual representing 12,000 or so people, it would be almost impossible to distribute six tickets fairly."

l Children are being invited to create their own crowns in a Queen's Golden Jubilee competition.

The contest is being staged as part of celebrations in Town Hall Square next Saturday.

Judging will be in two age groups - up to five years old and 5-10 - and prizes will be on offer.

The competition is among a day of activities planned jointly by Keighley Gala committee and Keighley Amateurs.

From 10am, Town Crier Mike Walton will be out and about promoting the event.

Entertainment in Town Hall Square begins at 10.45am, when the Yorkshire Building Society Junior Brass Band will perform.

At 11.45am, an Elizabethan Pageant will be presented by Keighley Amateurs.

The crowning of Gala Queen Victoria McGuinness will take place at 1pm, and the judging of the make-a-crown competition - for which entries should be prepared before the day - will be at 1.30pm.

The band will continue playing until around 2.30pm.

Other attractions will include face painting.

Ready to celebrate see page 3.