Visitors to Rod Dawson’s house were greeted by an army of skeletons and an array of ghosts and ghouls last night.

The Bradford Council manager of Alexandra Road, Horsforth, and his wife Rachel, open their home to the public each Halloween to raise money for charity. Their house of horrors also included a ‘dead’ man on the kitchen floor, a graveyard, pirates’ bar and mother-in-law coffin.