Local hero has a few too many

Your piece on regional breweries “Local Heroes” (MW February 23) was marred slightly by one or two factual inaccuracies.

Our client Marston Thompson & Evershed is based in Burton-upon-Trent (not Wrexham), it has about 1,000 pubs (not 2,000) and they are Midlands-based (not Northern).

Aside from this, it was a good piece.

Nick Manning

Manning Gottlieb Media

London WC2

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