Final stop for bus fan

Instead of the usual black hearse, Gordon Earnshaw's coffin was carried to Keighley crematorium, in a red Lodekka bus with cream trimming followed by a red London Routemaster.

Both vehicles were from the Keighley Bus Museum Trust.

Graham Mitchell, who was behind the wheel of the Routemaster, said: "Gordon was a very good friend and beneficiary of the museum."

Mr Earnshaw, 85, died after a long battle with cancer. His lifelong

love of buses began when he worked as a fitter for the former Keighley

West Yorkshire Bus Company as a young man.

The former Keighley councillor leaves wife Lucy, son David and daughter Joyce Newton.