A booming business exhibition has taken on an international flavour.

Keighley Business Forum's One Stop Business Exhibition had links this year with the US and Europe.

The event, the biggest of its kind in the area, attracted 90 stands to a marquee on the Keighley Cougars ground.

More than 1,000 people were due to attend the event - the fifth KBF has held - today and yesterday. Last year there were 800 visitors and 54 stands.

Organiser Lesley Ord said: "This is the biggest event we have done. We are looking at other ways of promoting Keighley firms throughout the country."

The event attracted Sherman Bank from President Clinton's home town of Little Rock, Arkansas.

"We have developed links with Keighley over the last four years thanks to a meeting with a woman from the town four years ago," he said.

"We work with Bronte Country Tourism from Keighley."

The event, which was opened by Keighley MP Ann Cryer and KBF president Sir James Hill, saw the town's Holy Family School make a live video link with the International School in Lyons, France.

Further foreign links are being developed via KBF's Waste Minimisation Programme, which is building up relations with similar schemes in France, Germany and Denmark.

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