A beer-lover is celebrating visiting his 12,000th boozer following an epic pub crawl across the UK lasting 55 YEARS. <br /><br />Rob Cocker, 73, has been travelling across the country for more than five decades sampling ales in tens of thousands of pubs since 1969. <br /><br />The dad-of-one decided to just "see what else was out there" after getting bored of visiting his local in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., at the age of 18.<br /><br />Since then, he has caught buses and trains as well as hitched lifts with pals to have a "quick half" in pubs from Oban, Scotland to Land's End, in Cornwall.
