Wetherspoon has revealed artist’s impressions of how the new King of Essex pub in Basildon town centre will look as work begins this month.

And everyone is blurting out the same single-beat answer before I can finish asking what has brought them to a Wetherspoons today. Every seat in the sea of black and red chairs is occupied.

Wetherspoon will be opening 15 new pub sites over the next year, with the first six locations now confirmed - with the first pub opening in just a few weeks. This morning, Spoons revealed that ...