Keighley Festival will play host to some sleek-bodied super models during its closing day this summer.

But the ladies won't be flaunting their looks on the catwalk - they'll be floating on Keighley Tarn.

The lake at Blackhill will be the setting for the first model boat regatta in Keighley for many years.

Keighley Model Engineering Society is bringing back the traditional event on June 24 to celebrate recent improvements to the tarn.

On the same day the modellers will show off their planes, trains and cars at their Marley railway track during a "flypast" and mini Grand Prix.

A vintage bus is expected to carry local people between Keighley town centre and the two venues.

The regatta, flypast and mini Grand Prix will bring to an end nine days of family fun beginning on June 16 with songs and dances in the town hall square.

Festival organisers this week received confirmation they would receive a £13,000 grant from Keighley Area Panel, part of Bradford council, to fund the celebrations.

Events in or around Cliffe Castle will include a week-long woodland roadshow, a children's carnival and a fossil workshop.

The festival sports day will this year form part of Oakbank Sports College's planned SportKarnival on June 17.

The day will include a sponsored walk, fitness machine challenges, cyclo-cross, rugby, soccer, hockey, archery, dancing, gymnastics, tug-of-war and other sporting challenges.

Popular events making a return include the vintage vehicle rally (June 17), tea dances, line dancing with The Haleys, five-a-side football and a concert by Steeton Male Voice Choir.

The Asian mela will this year be organised by the main festival committee and include sports like kabadi, beeni, pathar and mungli in Victoria Park on June 24.

Other Asian events during the week will include patwari sher (folk music), mehfil-e-naat (cultural get-together), Bangladeshi and Pakistani cooking, arts and crafts.

Still to be confirmed are a community cricket tournament, Nostalgia Night with historic vehicles, and a "festival crank-up" with Aire Valley Vintage Machinery Club.

Anyone who wants to take part in the festival or run their own event as part of the week should phone chairman Peter Halliwell on 01535 216936. He would particularly like to hear from anyone wishing to enter a team in the tug-of-war.