BOSSES at a Ribble Valley hotel are celebrating after scooping an award.

The Shireburn Arms, in Hurst Green, has been named the Best Kept Hotel and Restaurant in Lancashire’s Best Kept Village Awards, at the Gibbon Bridge Hotel.

Delighted owner Steve Alcock was presented with a shield, which will sit alongside the Shireburn’s ‘Small Hotel of the Year 2008’ and ‘Taste Lancashire Highest Quality Assured’ awards.