DRINKERS bored of that pub menu staple, the Ploughman's Lunch, are in luck.

For a new pub is offering an unusual bush-tucker bar snack alongside the pork scratchings - caterpillars.

African landlady Portia Gwanzura was determined to give the people of Leigh, Lancashire, something different when she took over the Moonraker pub. She said: "For those people who are feeling adventurous there will be things like caterpillar available.

"Our menu will still have all the traditional pub foods but we wanted to offer people something different." The 39-year-old from Zimbabwe believes she has found a gap in the market.

She said: "I came to live in Leigh five years ago and it is a beautiful place with a lot of nice pubs, but they are all very similar, so I wanted to make the Moonraker different." Customers at the King Street pub can also enjoy a selection of African beer and cider. Portia added: "A lot of people visit Africa and just visit the big cities. But I am a real African woman and the Moonraker will be more authentic than those places."

The pub re-opened in November and African music and dance, courtesy of Portia's group Hohodza Band, has been going down a storm.