IT'S official - the new Titanic Spa at Linthwaite has been declared open.

Mayor of Kirklees Clr Margaret Fearnley officially opened the spa at a civic celebration .

The Mayor (left) is pictured outside the spa with (from left) its founder Eileen Harrison, director Warrick Burton and co-founder David Wilkinson.

The spa is located at the newly-developed Titanic Mill complex at Low Westwood Lane in Linthwaite.

The former textile mill is being turned into a luxury 121-apartment complex with a therapy suite, gym, swimming pool, restaurant and hotel rooms. It will be complete in 2007.

The spa opened for business in December - a month after the first residents moved into the new apartments.

It boasts 20 rooms, including heat and chill zones, a mud chamber, aroma room, sauna, crystal steam room, ice room, a plunge pool and a chakra massage room.

It also has `experience' showers which emit pummelling jets, plus foot spas, a nail and hair salon, a healthy-eating bistro and a shop.