Eastburn is to get its new zebra crossing after months of campaigning by local residents.

The crossing will be placed at the junction of Main Street and Middle Row after Bradford Council agreed to fund the £15,000 scheme.

A campaign for another crossing in the village was launched following a road accident in which an elderly lady was killed.

Worried parents mounted a roadside protest, warning motorists travelling through the village to slow down.

Repeated attempts to find a school crossing patrol officer have so far failed.

Chairman of Steeton-with-Eastburn Parish Council Coun David Emmott told the Herald: "Last year a lady was killed in a road accident and children have had a tremendous job trying to cross the road to go to school and back.

"There have been lots of near misses so we thought it was time there was a zebra crossing. The whole parish council agreed."

Mr Emmott, who also chairs Bradford Council's Keighley Area Panel which approved the funding, said the crossing would be in place "as soon as possible".

He reported the news to delighted parish council members on at their monthly meeting on Wednesday.

Members also heard the panel had approved £7,000 worth of funding to provide boundary signs on the three approaches to both Steeton and Eastburn.

This is a joint initiative between the parish council and the famous Steeton Male Voice Choir as a way of commemorating the millennium.

Millstones will be placed at all entrances to both villages, bearing the name of both organisations and village names.

Other South Craven projects which had been vying for funding at the area panel meeting included: traffic calming schemes for Ingsway in Silsden and Thornhill Road, Steeton; advanced direction signs for lorries warning drivers of a 7.5 tonne limit through Addingham; and the re-alignment of the kerb at the busy junction of Ilkey Road and Church Street, Addingham.