Haworth may get a long-awaited cash machine.

Plans have been submitted to Bradford council for a 24-hour dispenser at the new Spar store in Station Road, due to open yesterday.

For several years anger has been voiced at the lack of a cash-dispensing machine in the Bront village, which attracts more than a million tourists each year. In 1991 Keighley Tourism Working Party was told that it would cost £50,000 to install a machine. Countryside officer David Parsons had written to five banks, without success, pleading for facilities for the second busiest literary shrine (behind shakespeare's Stratford) in the country.

James Hall And Company (Properties) Ltd, which is behind the application, says all Spar shops are required to accommodate cash machine facilities on their premises. Yorkshire Bank has already put forward its name for the 24-hour banking facilities.

The cash macine will be accessible 24 hours a day.

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