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James Andrews

10,000 new jobs to be created by Wetherspoons under huge £200m expansion plans

10,000 jobs are to be created across the UK as Wetherspoons announce huge expansion plans.

The pub chain wants to massively increase its workforce as it invests hundreds of millions in its boozers, says the Daily Mirror.

It will spend a huge £200m on developing new branches and hotels, as well as enlarging existing pubs.

The company is particularly looking to invest in some of Britain's smaller towns which have missed out on cash injections in recent years.

Wetherspoon founder and chairman Tim Martin pictured at The Roebuck Inn in St James's Street, Nottingham. (Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)

Wetherspoons founder Tim Martin said: "We are looking forward to opening many more new pubs as well as investing in existing pubs over the next four years.

"We are especially pleased that a large proportion of the investment will be in smaller towns and cities which have seen a decline in investment in recent years.

"The fact that we will be creating approximately 10,000 jobs is great news too."

These are set to include new pubs in Bourne in Lincolnshire, Waterford in Ireland, Hamilton in Scotland, Ely in Cambridgeshire, Diss in Norfolk, Felixstowe in Suffolk, Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, and Prestatyn in North Wales.

But Wetherspoons is also putting money into some larger towns and cities.

Major cities with new facilities coming include London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds and Galway.

Wetherspoon operates 875 pubs and 58 hotels across the UK and Republic of Ireland and employs 44,000 staff.

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