Keighley only receives YiB silver rose despite praise for railings

29/09/2009

Keighley needs to do more to improve its bid to win a Yorkshire in Bloom award, despite receiving praise for new railings, bedding displays and residential gardens, according to reports.

Despite a high-scoring effort this year, the town did not improve upon last year's silver success, with the highest local score going to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Judges praised Cliffe Castle Gardens, the new railings in the Town Hall square, the efforts of the council's refuse staff and the residential gardens at Wheathead Lane, but eventually the town was awarded a silver rose for the third consecutive year.

Meanwhile, Haworth kept the silver gilt rose it was awarded last year, two years after the town achieved a gold rose success.

Yorkshire in Bloom is a charity which represents the Yorkshire region in the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain in Bloom campaign, which was first held in 1963.