Bront country is to feature Down Under on Australia's leading travel show.

Film crews from Getaway - Australia's version of our own 'Wish You Were Here?' - shot scenes in the famous cobbled Main Street, at the Parsonage Museum and at Weavers restaurant where hosts Colin and Jane Rushworth opened their doors specially and served up traditional Yorkshire puddings.

Also, council countryside officer David Parsons provided transport to enable filming to take place at Top Withens, the reputed moorland inspiration for Emily Bront's 'Wuthering Heights' which she wrote at the Parsonage.

The Getaway programme is broadcast to seven million people on Australia's Network 9 channel, and worldwide on satellite and cable TV to an audience totalling 140 million.

The filming was arranged by Keighley-based Bront Country Tourism, whose manager Carolyn Spencer says: "This will result in more valuable exposure for Bront country, not only in Australia but also worldwide, and can only enhance our efforts to boost tourism across the whole area."

Meanwhile, the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was chosen to film a scene for the popular Channel 4 children's programme "The Vibe'.

The programme, starring three children from Bradford, will look at their different lifestyles in the fast-moving Saturday lunchtime TV show aimed at deaf and hearing kids.

Ken Price, the programme's manager says: "The programme will focus on the children as part of our regular location reports from around the UK. The roving report on this area of Yorkshire will appear later in the new series of The Vibe.

Cllr Barry Thorne, chairman of Bradford council's leisure services committee, says: "The whole day was extra special for the young people involved as they put themselves, Bradford and Keighley in the national spotlight.

"It is something I am sure they will never forget."

Filming took place on Monday, and the programme should be televised towards the end of the year.

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