PREPARATIONS for this year’s Pocktoberfest are gathering pace.

The annual beer and music festival – which this year includes Echo and the Bunnymen and the Guillemots – will be held at Pocklington School sports centre on October 27 and 28.

Event organisers have now hung their event banner in the town centre to help to publicise the festival and draw in the crowds.

The event will include beers from Brass Castle, Pennine and Big River breweries.

Tickets are available from pocktoberfest.co.uk