Volunteer workers will ensure Keighley should be one of only two towns in West Yorkshire to have bus services on Christmas Day.

Graham Mitchell, chairman of the Keighley Bus Museum Trust (KBMT), said its drivers had kept Christmas buses running in Keighley for a decade.

He said: "For several years KBMT was the only operator of such Christmas Day buses anywhere in the north of England."

More recently there have been some Christmas day minibuses in Huddersfield, sponsored by Kirklees Council.

Mr Mitchell pointed to the success of last year's Christmas service, when Keighley's heritage buses carried more than 330 passengers across the town in bitterly cold conditions.

He said the town council would again print timetables and publicise the service.

Two KBMT buses will be in use on four routes connecting Keighley town centre to the Braithwaite estate and the Worth Valley villages of Oakworth, Haworth and Oxenhope.

All the buses will then connect at Worth Way, Keighley, with an hourly bus to Airedale Hospital, at Steeton.