FORMER Town favourite Delroy Facey joined the Mayor to open a new £200,000 playground.

Children from Fartown helped design the playground which was the brainchild of the Red Doles Playground Committee.

The project began almost four years ago when youngsters complained they had nowhere to play.

In autumn last year the committee finally secured a lottery grant to fund the whole playground, on land off Aquamarine Drive, in Fartown.

The playground includes slides, swings and climbing frames.

Red Doles Playground chairman Martin Wood made a short speech before the Mayor of Kirklees Clr Margaret Fearnley officially opened the site and allowed the children to start playing.