The Petersfield Beer and Cider Festival is returning to the Festival Hall, October 14-17.

There will be cooled real ales, lagers and ciders from all across the region, live music and hot food.

Four sessions are being run over the three days: Thursday, October 15, 6-11pm; Friday 16, 6-11pm; Saturday 17, noon-5pm, and Saturday 6-11pm.

This year a pint will still cost £3, but the glasses will have third pint markers and tokens will cost £1 each and worth a third of pint.

There will be curries provided by The Spice Lounge at the Friday and Saturday evening sessions. And locally-produced Jakes pork pies will be available Saturday day time are will be filled baguettes and sausages available. The Thursday evening session now features all the beers available.

In addition, the Rugby World Cup games will be showing in the Rose Room outside the main hall. The first half of game one will be during our Saturday day session. All of game two will be shown during the Saturday evening session.