An MP has called for more youth organisations that cater for both Asian and white youngsters.

Keighley Labour MP Ann Cryer told youngsters at a peace seminar there should be more youth clubs in the town.

"Over the last four years I've been calling for more - but let's not make them Asian or Church of England clubs, let's make them multi-cultural," she said.

Mrs Cryer was speaking to sixth formers from Greenhead School and Holy Family School, Keighley, who held a joint conference entitled "What would a peaceful Keighley be like - and what can we contribute towards it?"

It was held in the wake of this summer's Bradford riots, when racial tension threatened to boil over into Keighley.

She said: "We don't want to get to a Belfast situation where we are dividing up schools and clubs on ethnic or religious grounds.

"I have never discriminated against anyone on the basis of their colour. About 15 per cent of my electorate are Asian and yet myself and my office spend about a third of our time working with the Asian community."

The convention, at Keighley Playhouse, was organised in conjunction with the University of Bradford's Department of Peace Studies as part of its Programme for a Peaceful City project.

Staff from the department worked closely with teachers and students as well as with the Interfaith Team from the Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds.

Holy Family School's head of religious education, Caroline O'Neill, said the peace studies department would consider the work of the conference and discuss how Keighley could move on as a community.