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Husband and wife team Jim and Debra Gibbons at the Birstall Irish Democratic League Club

Heavy Woollen Branch of CAMRA presents Club of the Season award for Spring 2026

The award winning Knowl Club in Mirfield is getting ready to welcome people for its annual Spring Beer Festival.

Award winning CAMRA club hosting three-day beer festival

Sarah-Jane and Paul Moon with the CAMRA Regional Club Of The Year 2025 runners-up award which was presented to them at Knowl Club's annual beer festival.

Mirfield club presented with CAMRA award at ‘incredible’ beer festival

Sarah-Jane Moon and Paul Moon of the Knowl Club, Mirfield, are preparing for the annual three-day beer festival.

Second best Yorkshire club for real ale preparing for annual beer festival

CAMRA chairman Ash Corbett-Collins (inset) believes politicians often treat pubs as little more than a backdrop for photo opportunities (Photos: Getty Images/CAMRA)

CAMRA: 'Removing pub notices from papers is the wrong kind of reform'

The CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2026 has been released.

7 Dewsbury, Mirfield, Batley and Spen pubs featured in Good Beer Guide 2026

A bid to turn the site of the former Commercial Hotel in Batley into a diagnostics centre and flats has been refused by Kirklees Council. Picture: Google

Bid to turn site of former Batley pub into flats and diagnostics garage refused

Conner, Scott, Jamie and Lisa at 1931 Birstall

Birstall bar named summer pub of the season by Heavy Woollen branch of CAMRA

Sarah-Jane Moon and Paul Moon of the Knowl Club with their CAMRA award.

Club where people were ‘queuing on the doorstep’ for festival receives award

Paul and Sarah-Jane Moon of the Knowl Club, which is set to host a Spring Beer Festival next weekend (Friday, May 30 to Sunday, June 1).

Award-winning Mirfield club set for three-day beer festival

Representatives from CAMRA visited the Knowl Club during the beer festival to present Paul Moon, right, and wife Sarah-Jane, centre, with their Club of The Year Runner-Up for 2024 award.

Award-winning Mirfield club 'supped dry' at ‘fantastic’ beer festival
An award-winning real ale club in Mirfield has been “supped dry” after its “fantastic” annual beer festival sold over 1,000 pints.
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Rob Cocker, from Stoke-on-trent, with his good beer guide in his local pub Manor Court Ale House enjoying a pint of beer to add to his list. So far he has visited over 12,000 pubs in 55 years. Photo: William Lailey / SWNS

Watch: Beer lover visits 12,000 pubs during 55-year UK-wide pub crawl

Harriet Heycock, left, and Sarah-Jane Moon at Knowl Club, Mirfield, which has received a CAMRA award.

136-year-old club named second best in Yorkshire by CAMRA

The 12 pubs, clubs and bars in Dewsbury, Mirfield, Batley and Spen featured in the 2024 CAMRA Good Beer Guide

The pubs and bars in North Kirklees featured in the 2024 CAMRA Good Beer Guide

Lina James, front middle, with staff at the Black Bull in Liversedge having claimed the Campaign For Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Pub of the Year 2024 in the Heavy Woollen district award.

Liversedge pub crowned best in Heavy Woollen by CAMRA

The pubs in Dewsbury, Batley, Spen and Mirfield have been named in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2023

11 pubs in Dewsbury, Batley, Spen and Mirfield featured in the 2023 edition

CCTV footage shows police storming a couple's Essex pub and seizing their golliwog dolls, saying the toys were a suspected hate crime (Photos: SWNS)

CAMRA makes damning verdict on pub at centre of Gollies row

CAMRA boss says duty cuts needed to save UK pubs

CAMRA have warned against the reduction in energy bill support.

CAMRA warns UK's 'beloved pubs' face closure as energy bill help cut

Cellar Bar in Batley is on the CAMRA ‘real ale trail’ and has been popular for more than six years since it opened.

Devastation as 'real ale trail' bar in Yorkshire announces closure

12 pubs in Dewsbury, Batley, Spen and Mirfield have been named in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2023

The Dewsbury, Batley and Spen pubs featured in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2023

Punters think drinking beer or cider is the greenest way to enjoy alcohol

Research reveals greenest drinks as latest Good Beer Guide released

Staff at The Savile Arms in Thornhill with the Heavy Woollen CAMRA branch's pub of the season award for autumn 2021

Bar in churchyard wins Heavy Woollen CAMRA branch Pub of the Season award

Scott Kingsley and mum Debbie Kingsley, of The Black Bull in Birstall, receive the Heavy Woollen Branch of CAMRA's Cider Pub of the Year Award from chairman Mike Roebuck

Black Bull in Birstall named Cider Pub of the Year by CAMRA branch

Derek Robinson, chairman of Thornhill Cricket and Bowling Club, and barperson Lauren Kaye receive the Heavy Woollen Branch of CAMRA's Club of the Season Award for Winter 2019/20, which was delayed due to the pandemic

Thornhill Cricket and Bowling Club wins CAMRA seasonal award

The Bobbin Carrier in Cleckheaton is among the pubs set to re-open on May 17

Here are the 34 pubs and bars in North Kirklees set to re-open next week

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Win an American craft beer tasting for your lockdown hero

The decision is designed to make women at the event feel more welcome (Photo: Shutterstock)

‘Sexist’ beer has been banned from a CAMRA festival - here’s why Rhona Shennan

Hanging Heaton CC: Mick Morris, Milly Jagger, Mike Roebuck (Branch Chairman), PeterJagger, Sophie Griffin and Joanne Jagger.

Hanging Heaton CC named king of clubs by CAMRA group

CEREMONY: Andy Kassube presents the West Riding Pub of the Year award.

Pub steams past rivals to win CAMRA award

Pub of Season: Andy Kassube presents the award to Emmy and Alan Ingle.

Mirfield pub The Pear Tree wins top CAMRA award

Certificate: CAMRA chairman Andy Kassube presents the Summer Club award to Gail Auty and Rob Ellis at the Upper Hopton Club.

Upper Hopton venue cheers top club victory

More than 100 West Yorkshire pubs have been included in this year's Good Beer Guide

Here are the West Yorkshire pubs named in the Good Beer Guide 2019

Cleckheaton Beer and Music Festival is back this weekend.

Cleckheaton Beer Festival ready to serve ale fans

Going to the pub is one of the nations favourite pastimes and Yorkshire has a wide selection to choose from, including those which specialise in real ale

Yorkshire Day 2018: 9 of the best real ale pubs in Yorkshire

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Flowerpot feat cheers CAMRA

WINNER: Andy Kassube (CAMRA) presents the pub of the year certificate to landlord Tony Anderson.

Horse and Jockey gallops home

PRESENTATION: West End receives the cider award.

West End cheer as pub lands top cider accolade

It's Community Pubs Month: Here's why your local boozer is important

The West Riding Refreshment Rooms were presented with the 2016 runner-Up in the West Riding Heavy Woollen CAMRA Pub of the Year competition.

Dewsbury pub earns CAMRA accolade

The Heavy Woollen branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has awarded its club of the year award to The Hanging Heaton Cricket Club on Bennetts Lane.

Batley cricket club lands CAMRA award

The majority of doctors polled said they thought moderate alcohol consumption could be part of a healthy lifestyle.

Doctors pour scorn on Government's alcohol advice

Could CAMRA be coming to an end?

Cleckheaton pub named area's best

CAMRA beer guide award handed to pub
A landlady had reason to raise a toast when CAMRA dished out a special award to her pub for being placed in its Good Beer Guide for a whopping tenth consecutive year.
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The reopening of the Old Turk. (d523e443)

Campaigners mark Community Pub Day

Leggers pub gets Camra award after 15 years in Good Beer Guide.

Award for Leggers Inn

CHEERS Greg Sharpe with Ossett Pub Companys Will Forrest. (D533C439) CHEERS Greg Sharpe with Ossett Pub Companys Will Forrest. (D533C439)

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Flocking to Shepherd’s Boy festival

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