Holy venue for ale festival

Hull’s real ale festival has a rather unusual new venue – the city’s Holy Trinity Church.

The festival’s traditionally been held at the City Hall but keeping the drinks cool has been a constant problem.

So, when the vicar was down at the local pub and heard the organisers were looking for a new venue, he offered up his 700 year old building, the largest parish church in the country.

Services at the church will continue as normal during the three day festival, and the vicar doesn’t see a problem in mixing booze and the Bible.