JD Wetherspoon

Charity chairman demands apology after pub ejection

19-Jul-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

A cancer patient has criticised pub giant JD Wetherspoon after being thrown out of the group's Liverpool sites for “touting” and demands an apology.

Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin featured in pro-Brexit poster

14-Jul-2017 By Georgina Townshend

A pro-Brexit campaign group has used a poster of JD Wetherspoon’s chairman Tim Martin in front of a Union Jack toasting the message “Brexit gloomsters should put a sock in it”.

Armed police praise JD Wetherspoon staff following ‘gun discovery’

04-Jul-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Police have praised the staff members of a Southampton JD Wetherspoon pub after armed officers rushed to the site following reports of a man with a gun.

Dress code

What JD Wetherspoon wants its customers to wear

04-Jul-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Following reports in national and local press, The Morning Advertiser has revisited the dress code for customers at JD Wetherspoon pubs.

Is JD Wetherspoon opening the ‘biggest pub in the UK’?

29-Jun-2017 By Georgina Townshend

JD Wetherspoon claimed it would be opening “probably” the biggest pub in the UK this summer. 

Wetherspoon announces ‘biggest single investment’ in new Dublin pub

26-Jun-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Wetherspoon is to embark on what it claims to be its biggest-ever investment, converting a row of “derelict” properties into a new pub and hotel, chairman Tim Martin has announced.

Wetherspoon invests £2.5m in 52nd hotel

15-Jun-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Wetherspoon is opening its 52nd hotel at one of its pubs in Hull following a development project that cost more than £2.5 million.

Carling and JD Wetherspoon launch community campaign

12-Jun-2017 By Georgina Townshend

Carling has teamed up with JD Wetherspoon to launch a nationwide campaign in JDW pubs to “give something back” to communities across Great Britain.

Stonegate reopens iconic JDW site after investing £750,000

02-Jun-2017 By Liam Coleman

Stonegate has reopened former JD Wetherspoon (JDW) site Tally Ho in Finchley, north London, after a £750,000 investment.

PCA to examine claims pubcos ‘inhibit’ tenant access to MROs

02-Jun-2017 By Liam Coleman

The office of Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) Paul Newby has approached industry bodies for evidence following concerns pubcos could be inhibiting tenant access to the market-rent-only (MRO) option.

Cautious optimism over fixed hours for zero-hours contracts workers

24-May-2017 By Liam Coleman

A Government-commissioned inquiry that recommends employees on zero-hours contracts are given a right to request fixed hours has been given a cautious welcome by one trade body.

Turnover of largest pub groups continues to outpace inflation

23-May-2017 By Liam Coleman

The average turnover of the 50 biggest pub companies in the UK is continuing to outpace inflation.

JD Wetherspoon plans to transform sixth Liverpool city centre site

16-May-2017 By Georgina Townshend

JD Wetherspoon plans to spend £2.5m converting a derelict office building into its sixth site in Liverpool’s city centre.

Conservative pledges to cut migration are ‘too restrictive’, says JDW

09-May-2017 By Liam Coleman

JD Wetherspoon (JDW) chairman Tim Martin has expressed concern that Theresa May’s election promise to cut net migration into the UK to the tens of thousands is “too restrictive”.

Brexit: employers concerned as future of EU workers remains unclear

29-Mar-2017 By Michelle Perrett

Article 50 will be triggered today and the official countdown to Britain leaving the EU will begin in earnest, but the detail that is worrying most who work in the pub trade is the crisis in waiting around the residency and working rights of foreign employees...