Hospitality giant JD Wetherspoon has made the "commercial decision" to put 32 of its pubs up for sale, two of which are in the North East.
The company, which operates more than 800 premises across the UK, previously warned that it could face losses of £30 million due to staff wages and repairs, StokeonTrentLive reports. There are only two North East pubs on the list, as opposed to nine alone in London.
Those are the Water House on North Road in Durham and the Resolution in Middlesbrough.