PATIENTS at Airedale Hospital were happy to receive the compliments of the season by pupils from Cononley Primary School.

A group from the school visited elderly patients in the hospital's Ward 10 over the Christmas period and took along dozens of gifts - and bags of festive cheer.

The school's parent-teacher association members asked pupils to buy presents for patients - and to wrap and deliver them too.

Pictured on at the hospital with some of the gifts are pupils Charlie Rowe, Georgia Rowe, Jorja-Lou Scarr and Alexander Duffey.

Cononley Primary School headteacher Catherine Pickles said: "The children, parents and carers at Cononley Primary School were very keen to donate gifts to ward 10. We hope that the gifts will help the patients have an enjoyable Christmas."