The founder of Corona beer has left £2m in his will to each resident of the small Spanish village in which he grew up.

Antonino Fernández, who died aged 98 in August, left £169m to the 80 residents of the small village of Cerezales del Condado in north west Spain, The Telegraph reports.

The owner of the only bar in the village, Maximino Sanchez told the Diario de León newspaper: “We never had any money before.

“I don’t know, what we would have done without Antonino.”

Mr Fernández first moved to Mexico in 1949 aged 32 where he started working for the Grupo Modelo brewery.

He rose through the ranks and was in large part responsible for making the company’s beers, including Corona, some of the best selling in the world.