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Sam Barker & Jamie Barlow

Wetherspoon announces plan to sell more pubs - with one from Nottinghamshire already on the list

A Wetherspoon pub in Nottinghamshire is one of a string under the Tim Martin umbrella to be put up for sale. Officials said in September the chain planned to sell 32 of its pubs.

And The Widow Frost, in Leeming Street in Mansfield, is on the list. No more pubs from across Nottinghamshire make up the rest of the 32. News of the sale of the pubs came after the pub chain warned that it could face loses of £30 million due to rising staff wages and repairs.

The pub chain has confirmed in recent days that seven more pubs will be sold, too, reports the Mirror Online. Wetherspoon officials have not yet said where the new batch of affected pubs are, however.

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A Wetherspoon spokesperson said the sell-off was a "commercial decision" and that the venues would continue to trade until a buyer was found. If no sale can be agreed then the venues will stay open as normal.

The 32 pubs up for sale so far are:

Barnsley – Silkstone Inn

Beaconsfield – Hope & Champion

Bexleyheath – Wrong ‘Un

Bournemouth – Christopher Creeke

Cheltenham – Bank House

Durham – Water House

Halifax – Percy Shaw

Hanham – Jolly Sailor

Harrow – Moon on the Hill

Hove – Cliftonville Inn

London Battersea – Asparagus

London East Ham – Miller's Well

London Eltham – Bankers Draft

London Forest Gate – Hudson Bay

London Forest Hill – Capitol

London Hornsey – Toll Gate

London Holborn – Penderel's Oak

London Islington – Angel

London Palmers Green – Alfred Herring

Loughborough – Moon & Bell

Loughton – Last Post

Mansfield – Widow Frost

Middlesborough – Resolution

Purley – Foxley Hatch

Redditch – Rising Sun

Sevenoaks - Sennockian

Southampton – Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis

Stafford – Butler's Bell

Watford – Colombia Press

West Bromwich – Billiard Hall

Willenhall – Malthouse

Wirral – John Masefield

The first Wetherspoon pub was opened in 1979 in London's Muswell Hill. For the first month it was called Martin’s Free House, but was renamed in 1980.

Wetherspoon was the name of one of Martin's teachers, who told him he would never be a success. The company began opening more pubs in north London, and went from there, opening more and more branches around the country.

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