Health chiefs have saved Keighley Community Trans-port by making up a funding shortfall.

Airedale Primary Care Trust, which runs GP and community health services, is giving £10,000 to the much-used charity.

The news came as Bradford Council presented a minibus to the transport group to replace a vehicle destroyed by vandals two months ago.

KCT is paying £4,000 towards the second-hand 12-seater minibus which was formerly used by Social Services.

Council chiefs negotiated a £1,000 discount with the leasing company that owned the low-mileage vehicle.

And a local charity has given some cash towards the £20,000 cost of a new minibus.

The two vehicles will bring the service's fleet back up to full strength, so it can meet the demands of more than 200 local groups.

It logged 130,000 miles last year, with volunteer drivers carrying 35,000 passengers.

Community Transport lost three vehicles last year in arson attacks on its premises next to Holycroft Primary School.

Local groups and individuals have in recent weeks donated more than £1,500 to help replace the vehicles.

Keighley Community Transport was last month devastated when Bradford Council revealed it would give just half its usual £16,000 annual grant.