A popular city pub has unveiled its new mural after weeks under scaffolding.

Hobgoblin, in York Place, Brighton, is now covered from top to bottom in a fantasy woodland painting, complete with toadstools, grass and creatures.

There are also fairies, dragonflies and flowers, and paths up to small doors – maybe home to the pub’s namesake goblin.  

The pub is popular with students, offering deals and “the best beer garden in Brighton”, a large, sheltered area at the rear of the pub with benches, colourful lights and music.

Hobgoblin had been covered in scaffolding for several weeks while painters worked to complete the mural which has finally been unveiled.

Charlotte Duffy, manager of Hobgoblin said: “The scaffolding has finally come down after three months.

"The design was pre-planned and then spray painted freehand by artists. 

"We are under the same company as The Hare and Hound in Preston Circus so we wanted to stick with the nature theme the exterior of that pub has but with a theme that fits our pub. 

"We have always had an interesting outside. We had the blue mural before, but as the whole inside and garden was being done up we thought we would get the front done at the same time."