Wetherspoons to open 18 new pubs and create 2,000 new jobs as lockdown eases

The company is to invest £145,000,000 into the business (Picture: PA)

Wetherspoon is set to invest £145 million opening new pubs and upgrading existing ones, creating 2,000 new jobs, the company has announced.

The ambitious plans will start within weeks of its pubs reopening fully as the lockdown eases.

A total of 18 new pubs will open and ‘significant extensions and upgrades’ will be made to scores of current pubs.

The first new pubs and extensions will be in towns and cities including Leeds, Birmingham, Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, Sheffield, Felixstowe in Suffolk, Heswall on the Wirral, Dublin, Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthen and Glasgow.

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