A WEST Malvern watering hole now has a plaque to prove it has the best pub views in Britain.

The 200 year-old Brewers Arms, in Lower Dingle, won the accolade of boasting the best view in a national competition organised by pub operator Eldridge Pope and supported by the licensed trade paper, the Morning Advertiser.

The challenge started when Eldridge Pope organised an internal competition within its own estate of 180 pubs to find the hostelry with the best landscape view and awarded the honour to the Hare and Hounds in Bath.

Operations director Tim Bird decided to take the competition a stage further by challenging any other pub in the country to beat the view - a challenge that was taken up on its behalf by the Morning Advertiser.

Entries were received from all over the country but the judges eventually awarded the prize to Trevor and Susan Marston and the Brewers Arms. On a good day it is possible to see for up to 90 miles from the pub with views of the Black Mountains of Wales as far as Abergavenny.

The couple win a two night break in any of Eldridge Pope's pubs with accommodation and they have settled on a visit to the beautiful Fisherman's Cot on the banks of the River Exe between Exeter and Tiverton in Devon.

They also receive a commemorative plaque from Clive Smith, Eldridge Pope's public relations consultant.

, is pictured presenting to Trevor and Susan, watched by Richard Matthews from the British Beer and Pub Association and Jonathan Smith, business development manager for the owners of the Brewers Arms, the Pyramid Pub Company.