Time up for horse-drawn tradition

The horses will make their last delivery on Friday

A brewery in Suffolk is calling time on decades of tradition by ending horse-drawn beer deliveries.

Adnams' heavy horses Sam and Monarch, which deliver beer to six pubs around its base in Southwold, will pull their dray for the final time this week.

The brewery is moving its distribution depot to a new site three miles away and bosses have decided the journey would be too far for the horses.

Adnams stopped using horses in 1953 then resumed the tradition in 1970.

A brewery spokesman said: "On road safety and animal welfare grounds we've decided that the journey would not be appropriate.

"They will make their last delivery on Friday and I imagine quite a few people will be out to say goodbye."