CALDER Valley Labour candidate Chris McCafferty was joined on the election trail by a retiring Cabinet minister.

Work and Pensions Minister Alan Johnson met her in Rastrick yesterday to help with her campaign.

Mr Johnson and Ms McCafferty, who won the seat in the 1997 General Election landslide, spoke to speak to a community group at Rastrick High School and asked what their concerns were.

Mr Johnson also visited Selby Abbey and Cleckheaton yesterday in a whistle-stop Yorkshire tour.