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Daily launches bid to save historic beer from extinction

A regional daily has launched a campaign to save a historic beer from extinction.

Carlsberg, which is closing Wolverhampton’s Park Brewery, has revealed plans to withdraw Banks’s Mild from pubs by the end of the year.

But the decision has prompted Wolverhampton’s Express & Star to start a petition aimed at reversing the move.

Banks’s Mild has been brewed in the West Midlands for 150 years.

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In an editorial, the newspaper said: “The Express & Star has always championed our breweries and values the tradition that comes with them.

“Banks’s Mild is part of the fabric of the Black Country and is also loved in the wider region and across the country.

“Please sign our petition to show Carlsberg the strength of feeling against plans to take it away from beer drinkers.”