BRAITHWAITE hairstylists are a cut above the rest when it comes to helping their clients!

Staff at Dana’s Hair and Beauty have rallied round to ensure terminally-ill customer Yvonne Hunter doesn’t miss her weekly ‘do’.

If Yvonne can’t make it to the salon because she’s too poorly then one of the stylists will go to her home.

Paula Smith, Rachel Atkinson and Shelby Clarkson have even volunteered to visit 65-year-old Yvonne in hospital so that she can keep her weekly appointment.

Yvonne, of Braithwaite Drive, is delighted with the service she’s been receiving from the trio throughout her treatment for lung cancer.

She wrote to the Keighley News to publicly thank the women for their kind-hearted actions.

She said: “The girls have been wonderful. I’m so grateful to them and will never be able to thank them enough. You

“After chemotherapy I lost most of my hair. I was mortified, but the girls rallied round and helped me choose a wig that suits me.

“They come to my house to do my hair if I am unable to get to the salon. Both Paula and Shelby have been to my house to wash my hair. I also like Rachel’s head massage.”

Yvonne has had her hair done every Thursday at Dana’s Hair and Beauty, on Guard House Ring, Braithwaite Avenue, since it opened 18 months ago, and

Paula, who has lived in Braithwaite for her whole life, is a technician at Keighley Campus where she runs the health and beauty training salons.

She wanted to open her own salon Braithwaite, and name it after her daughter Dana, who died when she was a baby.

She said: “I’ve been thinking for years that Braithwaite needed a hair salon. There was definitely a gap, all the other estates have one.”

Paula started the business with Rachel, a dental nurse who enrolled at Keighley Campus to retrain as a hair stylist after returning to her native Keighley.

In January this year they took on Shelby, who was also training at college after working in salons for several years. Like Paula and Rachel, she lives in the Braithwaite area.

Paula said: “I’ve known Yvonne since before I could walk. It was natural that we’d do everything we could to make life a bit easier for her.”

Yvonne has now finished her chemotherapy and radiography, and has her next appointment with her cancer specialist in November.