Six pubs in the Potteries are joining forces to stage a real-ale festival with a difference.
The festival starts on Wednesday March 10 at The Old Swan, Uttoxeter and will move from pub to pub, in a relay, spending one week at each outlet.
The Ale Festival Relay will conclude at The Reginald Mitchell, in Hanley, to coincide with the launch of the national Wetherspoon beer festival on Wednesday April 7.
The pubs participating in the festival relay are The Old Swan in Uttoxeter, The Poste of Stone in Stone, The Arnold Machin in Newcastle- under-Lyne, The Wheatsheaf in Stoke-on-Trent, The Picture House in Stafford, ending at The Reginald Mitchell in Hanley.

