Cullingworth have been accepted into the Halifax League for the 2014 season.

The Craven League club were voted in 17-13 at the Calderdale League’s monthly meeting at Pellon Social Club on Tuesday. However, they fared better than Bradford Mutual Sunday School League club Great Horton Church, who got only nine votes for and 21 against.

Before the vote took place, league secretary Neil Myers said: “I want to see all 30 clubs vote as it is no good a lot of clubs abstaining and a club getting into our league with only ten votes.”

In order to help both clubs in the future, Myers later asked those who had voted against both or either club to e-mail him the reasons.

He said: “If it is facilities or travelling, then the clubs who tried to get in will know where they stand.”

That issue having been decided, however, the hot topic of the evening was the cold weather, particularly at the league’s hill-top clubs.

Oxenhope representative Howard Smith said: “There are three to four-foot drifts against the machinery sheds.”

However, league president David Normanton said that the league will not be altering their fixture list, with the opening day taking place in just over a fortnight.