A GROWING amateur rugby league club has scored a major success following a long campaign for improved facilities.

Keighley Albion is one of just two clubs in the North chosen to pilot a new style of modular building.

Officials worked with the Rugby Football League to secure the building, which will offer much-needed changing provision together with showers and toilets.

Bosses at the Crossflatts-based club said they were delighted at news of the award, the culmination of a six-month selection process.

“Our club has grown but we have been struggling for a long time for space,” said chairman Dean Brookes.

“This new building will enable us to expand further and means we can move forward assured of good facilities for the years ahead.

“It’s great news.”

Preparation work was due to start at the site this week and the building is expected to be delivered, in sections, later this month.

Club official John Normington said the new facility would be a massive boost.

“It will enable us to maintain our aims of getting children and young people from the Aire Valley playing amateur rugby league in Keighley,” he said.