Two award-winning gastro pub entrepreneur brothers will be hoping to repeat last year’s success in a national Great British pub awards.

Nick and Chris Green, owners of the Stansfield Arms pub in Apperley Bridge, have been crowned as the best food house in the North-East and will this month represent Yorkshire at the national award ceremony.

Such success is not new to the pub which last year was named Best Leasehold Pub in the country by the oldest licensing trade magazine, The Morning Advertiser. Food sales at the Stansfield have grown each year since the brothers took over the pub three years ago.

The trip to London comes as the brothers are continuing to expand their Greencliffe Taverns business as they announced the opening of a new pub in October.

Nick, 39, said they were unable to enter the Best Leasehold category again after winning it last year.

He said: “So we entered the food category because it is something we have been concentrating on. We found out we won the regional award in August and so now we are down in London for the nationals.

“We have won some nice awards in the last few years – it puts us in good stead because we are taking on another pub, the Black Horse in Askwith, which we will be opening in October.

The pair will travel to London for the chance to be named Great British Pub of the Year at the awards ceremony on Thursday, September 18, at the London Hilton in Park Lane.