It is not only becoming more fashionable to read the Keighley News -- but once you've read it, you wear it.

Final figures have yet to be confirmed, but hundreds more people have turned to taking the Keighley News in the first half of the year.

Editor Malcolm Hoddy said: "We believe the increased sales figures show that we are meeting the needs of our readers and advertisers."

As auditors prepared to carry out their checks another set of figures were featuring in the Keighley News -- students wearing it.

A group of students from Beckfoot School, in Bingley, staged a fashion show to raise money for Martin House, a home from home for children and young people with life-limiting illnesses.

One activity involved models strutting their stuff wearing designer outfits made primarily from copies of the Keighley News.

The week culminated with the students putting on their own fashion show, modelling clothes from some of the major high street fashion retailers.

Added editor Hoddy: "One of the entrants even carried a hand bag made from the Keighley News.

"It makes a great change from the old gags about wrapping fish and chips, lining the bottom of a bird cage or even cutting it into squares and putting them in the smallest room in the house.

"It shows it is a great all-round newspaper."