A KEIGHLEY town centre charity shop's public appeal to help return a set of family photos to its rightful owner has been a success.

Yorkshire Cat Rescue, which has a shop in Cavendish Street, said the pictures had been donated accidentally in August inside a box of clothing.

The 25 black and white images showed family gatherings, including what appears to be a wedding, and also passengers disembarking from an Australian Qantas airline aircraft.

Following a story about the photos in the Keighley News, Yorkshire Cat Rescue shop manager, Helen Wilkinson, said a man came into the shop to claim the pictures later that same day.

Mrs Wilkinson said: "The gentleman brought in a photocopy of one of the photos with him. He was 'over the moon' to have the pictures back in the family's possession. It is nice to have a happy outcome."

She added that receiving personal items which had been inadvertently donated was not a new problem for the shop – she and her colleagues recently found some old legal paperwork and bank books in a donation, which they were again able to return to the owner.

She said: "We would request that people carefully check any donations, especially because unless they are gift aided, we have no way of knowing who kindly given them to us."