A BREWERY is launching a special beer to fund brain tumour research after a York bistro’s assistant manager developed an aggressive form of the cancer.

Jon’s Blonde will be sold at the Walmgate Ale House in the city’s Walmgate, where Jon Moss worked until he fell ill last August with grade four glioma.

Fifty pence from every pint bought will go to the Brain Tumour Charity to fund research into the illness, which is currently incurable and life-limiting.

The pale session ale, made by the Half Moon Brewery at Ellerton in East Yorkshire, may also be sold at several York pubs where Mr Moss is a regular.

Mr Moss, 39, from the Leeman Road area, said the support he had received from colleagues at the bistro and from the brewery was a ‘fantastic’ help at a difficult time.

He said that while the research would not help him, he hoped it would soon ensure effective treatment for patients with such a condition in the future.

Mr Moss said his form of tumour was so rare that the average GP would see only two cases in their careers, and it could not currently be cured, but he wanted to praise staff at York Hospital A&E, HRI’s neurology unit, the Queens Centre at Castle Hill Hospital, who had all been ‘unbelievable,’ and also McMillan nurses and York Against Cancer for their ‘outstanding’ support.