A 35-YEAR-old man must pay back almost £2,000 after admitting damaging beer pumps at The Horseshoe Hotel in Parr.

Brian Ashcroft from Sexton Avenue in Parr pleaded guilty at St Helens Magistrates' Court to causing £1,795 worth of damage in an incident last December.

He was given a two year conditional discharge and fined an extra £100.