EY up, fancy a reet good afternoon in Keighley?

The Yorkshire Dialect Society is staging an event at the town's local studies library on Saturday, August 3, between 2pm and 4pm.

Anyone is welcome to attend the celebration, planned as part of events around Yorkshire Day.

Colin Speakman will talk on The Pioneers of the Society. Featured figures will include the linguist, poet and storyteller Professor Frederick Moorman.

And society chair Rod Dimbleby will give a presentation.

There will also be dialect readings and recitals.

Established in 1897, the Yorkshire Dialect Society is the oldest surviving organisation of its kind in Britain.

It has members across the world.

For more information, visit yorkshiredialectsociety.org.uk

The local studies library is upstairs at Keighley Library, in North Street.