Ee bah gum! The Keighley News is the paper of choice for Dales-folk. Your favourite read has snatched a place in their affections with the Hotten Courier.

If you don't believe us, just take a look at this picture of life in Britain's most famous dale.

Eagle-eyed fans of top TV soap Emmerdale may have spotted the KN on the counter of Viv's post office during Tuesday's episode.

Our own editor Malcolm Hoddy - only an occasional viewer, he claims - was delighted to see the distinctive blue of the News' front page.

Emmerdale press officer Tim Worsnop later told us that real-life local newspapers are sometimes seen alongside the fictional Hotton Courier. "There's a representative sample," he says. "Emmerdale hasn't got a specific position in the Yorkshire Dales."

Mr Hoddy says: "Our readers have taken their Keighley News in some far-away places - Gibraltar, Mount Vesuvius and the Great Wall of China to name but three."

"But this is the first time it's been seen in the land of make believe!"

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