A Bingley company set up by a former number one pop star has gone out of business.

Jackson Consultancy Group on Park Road, which offered specialist training and marketing advice to the motor industry, has stopped trading and a liquidation meeting is to be held.

Creditors of the business have been called to the Bankfield Hotel in Bingley on March 28 when the circumstances surrounding the firm's voluntary insolvency will become known.

The court yard at the company's Priesthorpe Hall base was cleared of vehicles earlier this month, and the ornate building has been put on the market with a sign saying 'due to relocation'.

But a spokesman for Wakefield-based Jackson Jolliffe Cork, which is advising the directors of Jackson Consultancy Group, confirmed the company had ceased to trade due to insolvency.

Michael Jackson, 52, group chairman of the private limited company, was a member of chart topping band Love Affair, which had a hit with Everlasting Love in 1968.

Mr Jackson, a haemophiliac, has recently been pushing for a scholarship scheme to be set up for young people with the blood disease in the district.

Royalties from a new song, recorded for an anthology album, were to have gone towards the project, which would help sufferers take part in activities usually denied to them.

For years the former bass player kept the fact that he was a haemophiliac secret but last year he funded a self-help video to show how sufferers could lead a more positive life.

Mr Jackson was not available for comment about his firm's change of fortunes.