Pub and club door staff from across West Yorkshire are going to college - to ensure revellers have safer nights out.

The Safer Licensed Entertainment Project is a scheme being run as a partnership between Leeds City Council, Bradford Police, Park Lane College, Leeds and the British Institute of Innkeeping.

Door and bar staff attending the scheme, which will run for the next two years, will take a range of qualifications which will help them tackle violence and drugs.

Tony Longworth, programme area manager at Principal Park Lane college, said: "The project will improve their service to the public in what is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy."