A WETHERSPOONS pub in Bromsgrove is set to host a 12-day beer festival which kicks off later this month.

The Golden Cross Hotel will showcase a range of 25 real ales during the festival, which takes place from Wednesday March 30 to Sunday April 10.

The festival will offer the work of overseas brewers in Australia, USA and Italy and well as brews made closer to home in Orkney and Jersey.

Beers will cost £2.10 a pint and the line-up includes Rooster's Tenderfoot, Sambrook's Tomahawk, Orkney Dragonhead, Terrapin Jazz, Vale Jekyll and Hyde, Birrificio Foglie D'Erba Hot Night at the Village, Batemans Beast from the East, JW Lees Malt Crush and Young Henrys Real Ale.

Pub manager, Cassie Harwood, said: "The festival is a great celebration of real ale.

"It will allow us to showcase a selection of superb beers over a 12-day period, at great value for money prices."