This year's Keighley Beer Festival is returning to the brewery where it held its first ever drinking bash.

Organisers of the event have accepted an offer from John Mitchell to hold the festival at the Worth Brewery. The beer festival was last staged at the Worth Brewery in 1995, and it has since taken place at the Victoria Hall for two consecutive years.

The annual festival is organised by the Keighley and Craven branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

Branch secretary Fred Baker says: "We didn't do as well as we would have liked in the Victoria Hall, so we decided to change back to Worth Brewery. It is a smaller and cheaper venue to hire so it will suit us better. We should be able to match the number of people we had visiting last year."

The festival, which is now in its 11th year, will be staged throughout the brewery, with a wide selection of ales on offer.

Local members of CAMRA are looking for talented members to design a logo for this year's festival. The winning design will be rewarded with a prize: any entries should be sent to branch contact John Robinson at 48 Drewry Road, Keighley.

This years festival at the brewery will run from September 24-26.

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