BEER FESTIVALS

The 18th Horwich Beer Festival runs from Thursday, Sep- tember 7 to Saturday, September 9 at Horwich RMI, Ramsbottom Road, BL6 5NH. Organised by Horwich Rotary Club, the festival is a charity fundraiser. Visit www.horwich beerfestival.co.uk

The 2nd Wheatsheaf Beer Festival runs from Friday, September 8 to Sunday, September 10. The Wheatsheaf is at 1 Spendmore Lane, Coppull, Chorley, PR7 4NY. It is good to see this pub running beer festivals because it reopened in October 2014 after having been closed for more than three years.

The Southport and West Lancs Camra website is at: www.southport.camra.org.uk.

For previous Camra pub reviews in this paper, go to: tinyurl.com/vis-pubs.