Well done to the city centre pub The Wellington for being voted the pub of the year in Birmingham yet again.

I have to admit that I picked this pub like so many old ladies pick race horses - by the name.

A proper boozer with a long bar with over 10 real ales on & a darts team. The beers are listed clearly at the side of the bar & the fridges behind the bar are teaming with decent beer in bottles.

Well you've been in one Weatherspoon's & you've more-or-less been in them all. It's both their greatest & worst point.

A pub right on the edge of Aston Uni's campus in the city centre & with loads of "we're bonkers, we are" students using the cash point next to the pub, but none actually in the pub.

Bored on a rainy night in Nottingham with the only other option being going back to my hotel with a bottle in front of the telly, I walked downhill to the canal side & the pub with my name on.

Now I couldn't stay a night in Nottingham without calling in here.

One of the oldest pubs in Britain & right next to my hotel, The Salutation is a rock pub that has a loud jukebox when there aren't bands.

A Weatherspoon's pub (as Lloyd's No.1 Bar) right across the road from a Weatherspoon's pub (The Shrewsburyⁱ Hotel).

Staying at the hotel nearby, the lady in Little Chef said there was a good pub across the dual carriageway.   I went over & found a corporate chain pub with 1 real ale - and an uninsp