Keighley's "Missing Dorma" has turned up.

The giant-sized papier-mache statue of the great Italian tenor Pavarotti has spent the last year entertaining warehouse workers.

His whereabouts have been revealed after an appeal by Keighley Festival organisers who wanted him back as a star turn in this summer's week-long junket.

The 8ft-tall chicken wire and glue figure has been cared for by workers at McDowell Distribution, in Valley Road, Keighley.

"We weren't sure who owned him.

"He seemed destitute so we thought we'd give him a home," said operations director Joe Balmforth.

"He's been looking down on us from the Gods - one of our high shelves. We've been thinking of offering a ransom of 14 full breakfasts for his return.

"Seriously, we've been glad to have him - we thought somebody would want him back, so we'll be getting him down and dusting him off."

Festival organiser Malcolm Hanson has been re-united with the tenor - the real life Pavarotti died last year. "Someone who works at McDowell's saw the appeal in the paper, I believe, and we were contacted," he said.

Pavarotti is to be used as a "doorman" at this year's children's exhibition, called Madam Two Swords, in which school pupils will display life-size figures of famous people. Madam Two Swords herself is to be made by pupils at Braithwaite School, who also constructed Pavarotti. We will put both of them at the entrance - it should look spectacular," said Mr Hanson.