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JD Wetherspoon to sell 39 more pubs as costs rise ‘substantially higher’

Chain bet on post-Covid bounceback in 2021 but now faces surge in expenses and interest payments

The Guardian - UK

Brewery warns price of a pint could hit £7 and ‘become the norm’

War in Ukraine and inflation are among main drivers of increasing prices

The Independent UK

Wetherspoons selling pints for just £1.99 in quick-fire 'festival' - but be quick

Hundreds of Wetherspoons are selling pints from £1.99 but you will have to be quick, as the astonishing deal lasts just 12 days as part of the real ale festival this week

Daily Mirror

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Small town residents tell Wetherspoon, 'We don't want you here - go to Sheffield instead'

People in the 'conservative' market town of Wetherby have asked the chain to 'find somewhere more suitable in another town'

Wales Online

Wetherspoon facing 'momentous challenge' to get drinkers back into bars

The pub chain's boss Tim Martin has said that while his business had cut losses significantly, it had still not managed to return to a profit since the pandemic

Chronicle Live

Wetherspoon has 'momentous challenge' to get pub drinkers back as firm makes £30.4m loss

The chain’s Exeter-based boss Tim Martin said ‘dyed-in-the-wool pub-goers’ had become accustomed to buying beer from the supermarket instead

Birmingham Post

Wetherspoon suffers huge £30million loss after confirming plans to sell 32 pubs

Founder and chairman Tim Martin said customer habits have changed following the coronavirus lockdown, with more people choosing to drink at home rather than the pub.

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Wetherspoon boss invokes Macbeth as pub empire falls to £30m loss

TIM Martin today invoked Macbeth to describe the travails facing the pub trade as his Wetherspoon empire fell to an annual loss of £30 million.

Evening Standard

Residents plead with Wetherspoon not to open another pub in their town

They've told Tim Martin he should 'try Sheffield instead'

Wales Online

New Leeds Wetherspoon pub sparks fears over drunken yobs as 'conservative' residents say it should be put in another town

Residents in the quaint 'conservative' market town of Wetherby have asked the pub chain giant to 'find somewhere more suitable in another town'

Leeds Live

Full list of 9 London pubs facing closure as Wetherspoon puts sites up for sale amid soaring costs

JD Wetherspoon has warned it would slip to an annual loss after hiking staff wages

Evening Standard

JD Wetherspoon puts 32 pubs up for sale as company faces £30million loss

The business made the "commercial decision" to sell off the locations after previously warning that the company is facing a £30million loss due to rising staff costs and repairs.

Daily Record

Full list of the 32 JD Wetherspoon pubs put up for sale across UK

"We understand that customers and staff will be disappointed with it. The pubs will continue to operate as Wetherspoon outlets until they are sold."

Manchester Evening News

Full list as Wetherspoon puts 32 pubs up for sale

Wetherspoon has 872 branches and employs 43,000 people

Wales Online

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Daily Mirror

JD Wetherspoon puts 32 pubs up for sale across UK - see if your local makes the list

The company said it has made the "commercial decision" to sell the venues after previously warning that it could face loses of £30 million due to rising staff wages and repairs

Belfast Live

Mar-Train Yamaha announce British Superbike move

The Lisburn-based team is set to compete in the premier class in 2023

Evening Standard

Wetherspoon pubs cut prices for one day only amid calls for VAT reduction

VAT is the fastest growing tax of the biggest five taxes in the last decade

Daily Mirror

Thousands of pubs to shut amid cost of living crisis chaos as energy bills double

The heads of six of the UK’s biggest companies fear soaring costs are more of a danger to the great British institution than the Covid crisis, when pubs were forced to remain shut for long spells

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The Guardian - UK

Billy Bragg and Tim Martin dine across the divide: ‘Not everyone who voted Brexit is racist, but every racist voted Brexit’

In our celebrity Dining across the divide special, the singer-songwriter meets the JD Wetherspoon founder. Can they find any common ground on leaving the EU?

The Guardian - UK

Looking at the US, the unhappy story of inflation is still far from over

A fall in oil prices is small consolation – even ignoring fuel and food, US inflation is running at 6%

The Guardian - UK

Wetherspoon’s warns of £30m loss as older drinkers stay at home

Sales of draught ales, ciders and lagers drop 8%, with analysts citing customers’ Covid nervousness

Evening Standard

FTSE 100: Markets cling on with big oil bets

“Boris is to sound economics what Nick Kyrgios is to diplomacy” -- Tim Martin

Wales Online

Wetherspoons fans 'starstruck' as owner Tim Martin buys them a pint during chance meeting

Phil and Julie have visited more than 300 of the pubs across the UK

Irish Mirror

Irish pubs: Price of pints could soon rise warns Wetherspoons boss

The firm, which currently has seven Irish pubs and hundreds more across the UK, says it was badly affected by the Covid pandemic

Chronicle Live

Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin warns of rising price of a pint - 'considerable pressure on costs'

It comes as costs of energy, food and labour have all risen and households struggle with tightening budgets

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