Wetherspoons to close MORE pubs and dozens are still at risk – is your local going?

WETHERSPOONS fans may soon have to find a new local as more sites prepare to call last orders.

Punters could lose dozens of Wetherspoons drinking spots as more branches shut their doors.

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The Saltoun Inn in Fraserburgh, Scotland, shut for good on on July 30, while The Bankers Draft in Eltham, London, is set to close on August 20.

Plus, The Nightjar in Ferndown, Dorset, will not have its lease renewed in September, as The Sun previously revealed.

It comes after the chain – which has 827 pubs across the UK – warned last September that 32 pubs were being put up for sale.

Now the total number of venues that have closed stands at 29.

The pubs which have already closed were smaller, older, or have a second Wetherspoons fairly close by, the company said in a trading update published in July.

But it’s not all bad news as three new Wetherspoon pubs have opened over the past year.

Here is the full list of 13 Wetherspoons pubs that are currently under offer and at risk of closure:

• The Alfred Herring, Palmers Green
• The Cross Keys, Peebles
• General Sir Redvers Buller, Crediton
• The Butlers Bell, Stafford
• The Percy Shaw, Halifax
• Foxley Hatch, Purley
• Asparagus, Battersea
• Millers Well, East Ham
• Hudson Bay, Forest Gate
• Capitol, Forest Hill
• The Bankers Draft, Eltham – will close on August 20
• The Widow Frost, Mansfield
• Coronet, London

The following nine pubs are currently up for sale and at risk of shutting for good – but for now they are open as usual:

• Wrong ‘Un, Bexleyheath
• Jolly Sailor, Hanham
• Resolution, Middlesbrough
• The Rising Sun, Redditch
• Sennockian, Sevenoaks
• Lord Arthur Lee, Fareham
• Plough & Harrow, Hammersmith
• Moon on the Hill, Harrow
• The Sir John Arderne, Newark

While the 29 pubs below have already shut their doors for good.

• The John Masefield, New Ferry
• Angel, Islington
• The Silkstone Inn, Barnsley
• The Billiard Hall, West Bromwich
• Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Southampton
• The Colombia Press, Watford
• The Malthouse, Willenhall
• The John Masefield, New Ferry
• Thomas Leaper, Derby
• Cliftonville, Hove
• Tollgate, Harringay
• Last Post, Loughton
• Harvest Moon, Orpington
• Alexander Bain, Wick
• Chapel an Gansblydhen, Bodmin
• Moon on the Square, Basildon
• Coal Orchard, Taunton
• Running Horse, Airside Doncaster Airport
• Wild Rose, Bootle
• Edmund Halley, Lee Green
• The Willow Grove, Southport
• Postal Order, Worcester
• North and South Wales Bank, Wrexham
• The Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow
• The Knight’s Templar, London
• Christopher Creeke, Bournemouth
• The Water House, Durham
• The Worlds Inn, Romford
• The Saltoun Inn, Fraserburgh

Wetherspoons, like many other pub chains and retailers, has been hit hard by rising costs brought on by high inflation.

Tim Martin also said far more people now drink in their homes rather than in pubs.

Restaurant and pub chains across the country have been closing venues due to energy bills and high inflation.

Just under 4,600 premises closed over the year to March say the industry experts at consumer research brands CGA by NIQ and AlixPartners.

Marston’s Brewery has put 61 pubs up for sale following a review of its estate.

Italian dining chain Prezzo revealed plans to shut 46 restaurants in May.

The Restaurant Group (TRG) revealed it is considering shutting dozens of its loss-making restaurants over the next two years, in an effort to boost earnings.

It will cut the number of Frankie & Benny’s and Chiquito restaurants by around 30% over the next two years.

Byron Burger also announced it was closing nine restaurants after falling into administration in January.

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