A SPECIALIST new marketing agency has launched in Ilkley.

Growth Recruits is focused on providing digital marketing - including SEO, web design and development, and PR - for recruitment companies.

It was the challenges of the pandemic that spurred Tom Mcloughlin, Director of SEO Travel, and his team to branch out and start the new business.

Mr Mcloughlin said: “It wasn’t long before we saw the impact Covid-19 was having on travel and our business.

“The only solution was for us to get innovative and take on a new challenge.

“Already having some experience in marketing for a recruitment agency, branching out in this direction was the natural choice. The team has an established set of skills across SEO, PR, design, and web development and now we are using those same skills to support recruitment companies in their digital marketing.”