Royalty is to grace two tourist attractions which this year are celebrating special milestones.

The Duke of Kent is to visit the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth next Thursday.

The heritage steam railway is this year commemorating its 40th birthday.

And the Bronte shrine, where the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne wrote their classic novels, is 80 years old this year.

Andrew McCarthy, acting director of the museum, said: "The Duke is visiting us in our 80th year. We have yet to finalise the details but we expect him to be here about 45 minutes.

"We will provide a reception and are inviting donors and trustees and children from Haworth Primary School."

A Worth Valley Railway spokesman said arrangements were still in the pipeline but the Duke would be given a tour of the line.

He was expected to board a train pulled by the steam locomotive Ivatt.