A BEER festival with tipples from around the country is to take place at the Three Kings Inn in Hanley Castle.

The Church End pub will have mild, bitter, porter, stout and many more from breweries as far away as Edinburgh and Essex, as well as local brews.

Entertainment will be offered in the evenings, including Morris dancing on Sunday night to round the event off.

In all, 26 different real ales from small, independent breweries will be on offer at what is the pub's 9th annual festival.

The event will run at lunchtimes (from noon) and evenings (from 7pm) today (Firday), tomorrow and Sunday.