Two men come to Keighley, get drunk on Timothy Taylors and sleep through an important business meeting at a local foundry.

An everyday modern occurrence? Hardly, for this is a fictional account which features in a novel set during the Swinging Sixties.

Shipley man Geoff Lee has set his nostaligic book One Winter in a fictional Lancashire town and mixes romance, rock 'n' roll and rugby league.

The Lancashire-born writer, who has lived in Yorkshire for almost three decades, says the novel is full of Northern humour and focusses on working class life at home, work and play.

One Winter costs £7.99 in paperback from Reids Bookshop in Cavendish Street, WH Smith in the Airedale Centre, and the Keighley Cougars shop.