Keighley girls take to the stage next week with a member of the Royle Family.

That's Royle, not royal, for Heather Littler and Georgina Fahy Butterfield are performing in the Halifax pantomime.

The seven-year-olds will join Ralf Little - "Put The Kettle On Anthony" in the TV comedy - at the Victoria Theatre in Cinderella.

The girls were chosen out of hundreds of hopefuls to join one of the dance troupes who take turns to perform between tomorrow and January 2.

Heather, of Braithwaite Village, attends Stanbury Village School, and Georgina, of Fell Crescent, is a pupil of St Joseph's Primary School.

The pair will perform about four times each and have been rehearsing each Sunday afternoon since October and every evening this week.

They have taken tap, ballet and modern lessons together since they were three years old, at the Keighley-based West Yorkshire Dance Academy.

Several of their fellow pupils are performing in the Bradford Alhambra pantomime Aladdin because the Dance Academy was chosen to provide dancers.