A Stourbridge pub has served more than 50 meals to hungry kids this half term – and it's left a bittersweet taste.

For while the Britannia Sports Bar is proud to have helped, landlady Lisa Sutherland says its sad that so many families in the area needed help.

Lisa has been struck by how it is mainly working families who are struggling through the furloughing and job losses of Covid.

Lisa, 33 and partner Wayne Etheridge, 51, decided to do what they could following the Marcus Rashford campaign, though Lisa does not believe the government should be feeding the kids.

Instead she thinks it is all about community, and that’s why, as a community pub in Wollaston's High Street with a wide Facebook following, they got such a great response when they announced their plans.

The servings of chicken nuggets, beans and chips followed by yoghurt took place between 3pm and 4.30pm, when the bar is shut, and was carefully socially-distanced.

From a slow start on Monday word spread and on Thursday Lisa was cooking for 24.

“I did all the cooking, that’s why it was nuggets,” she laughed..” Even I can cook them. It was fun, quick and friendly.

“I remember when I first went to work after having my son, Connor, and how I struggled with child minding costs and rent, and how often I sent him to be fed by family or friends.

“Now I am in a position to help others. It was the right thing to do.”

The community rallied round to help, with £400 donated and ‘bags and bags and bags’ of food.

In fact, there was a surplus of both cash and food, so the money is now earmarked for a similar effort at Christmas while spare food has been dropped off at the foodbank.

Covid has taken its toll on the business, but Lisa says they are doing OK thanks to sports events and lunchtime meal trade.

“There are people far worse off than us,” she says. “That’s why we did this.”