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North East

• The Wouldhave, Southshields
• The William Jameson, Sunderland
• The Five Quarter, Peterlee
• The Ward Jackson, Hartlepool
• The Wicket Gate, Chester Le Street
• The Wild Boar, Houghton Le Spring
• The Hat and Feathers, Seaham
• The Highland Laddie, Norton
• The Half Moon Inn, Billingham
• The Tanners Hall, Darlington
• The Thomas Sheraton, Stockton
• The Plimsoll Line, Redcar
• The Ralph Fitz Randal, Richmond
• The Stanley Jefferson, Bishop Auckland
• The Grand Electric Hall, Spennymoor
• The Angel Hotel, Whitby
• The Horse Shoe Inn, Crook
• The Swatters Carr, Middlesbrough
• The Ironstone Miner, Guisborough
• The Fire Station, Whitley Bay
• The Quayside, Newcastle Upon Tyne
• The Central Bar, Carrickfergus
• The Job Bulman, Gosforth
• The Spirit Merchant, Newtownards
• The Tilley Stone, Gateshead
• The High Main, Byker
• The Ritz, Wallsend
• The Company Row, Consett
• The Rohan Kanhai, Ashington
• The Forum, Hexham
• The Sir William de Wessyngton, Washington
• The Wallaw, Blyth
• The Red Lion, Bedlington
• The Electrical Wizard, Morpeth
• The Harry Clasper, Whickham
• John The Clerk of Cramlington, Cramlington

Yorkshire and the Humber

• The Lord Rosebery, Scarborough
• The Yarborough Hotel, Grimsby
• The Sweyn Forkbeard, Gainsborough
• The Blue Bell Inn, Scunthorpe
• The Prior John, Bridlington
• The Three John Scotts, Kingston Upon Hull
• The Benjamin Fawcett, Driffield
• The Joseph Morton, Louth
• The White Horse, Brigg
• The Cross Keys, Beverley
• The Coliseum Picture Theatre, Cleethorpes
• The Winter Gardens, Harrogate
• The Devonshire Inn, Skipton
• The Myrtle Grove, Bingley
• The Livery Rooms, Keighley
• The Three Tuns, Thirsk
• The Unicorn Hotel, Ripon
• The Lister Arms, Ilkley
• The Clothier’s Arms, Yeadon
• The Crown Inn, Knaresborough
• The Buck Inn, Northallerton
• The Glass Blower, Castleford
• The City and County, Goole
• The Horseshoe, Wombwell
• The Punch Bowl, York
• The Joseph Bramah, Barnsley
• The Broken Bridge, Pontefract
• The Giant Bellflower, Selby
• The Blue Bell, Hemsworth
• The Barum Top Inn, Halifax
• The Six Chimneys, Wakefield
• The Richard Oastler, Brighouse
• The Cherry Tree, Huddersfield
• The Obediah Brooke, Cleckheaton
• The Union Rooms, Batley
• The Bowling Green, Otley
• The Picture House, Morley
• The Crossed Shuttle, Pudsey
• The Commercial Inn, Sowerby Bridge
• The Three Hulats, Chapel Allerton
• The Golden Beam, Headingley
• The Old Unicorn, Bramley
• The Briggate, Garforth
• Charles Henry Roe, Crossgates
• Stick or Twist, Leeds
• The Woodseats Palace, Sheffield
• The Church House, Wath Upon Dearne
• The Bluecoat, Rotherham
• The Rawson Spring, Hillsborough
• The Sheaf Island, Sheffield
• The Old Market Hall, Mexborough
• The Francis Newton, Sheffield
• The Queens Hotel, Maltby
• The Wagon & Horses, Chapeltown
• The Scarsdale Hundred, Sheffield

East Midlands

• The Babington Arms, Derby
• The Picture House, Sutton in Ashfield
• The Portland Hotel, Chesterfield
• The Liquorice Gardens, Worksop
• The Red Lion, Doncaster
• The Dominie Cross, Retford
• The Stag & Pheasant, Mansfield
• The Pillar of Rock, Bolsover
• The Tollemache Inn, Grantham
• The Red Lion, Skegness
• The Moon Under Water, Boston
• Ritz, Lincoln
• The Ivy Wall, Spalding
• The Packhorse Inn, Sleaford
• The Kettleby Cross, Melton Mowbray
• The Stamford Post, Stamford
• The Captain Noel Newton, Oakham
• The Raymond Mays, Bourne

West Midlands

• The Bottle of Sack, Sutton Coldfield
• The Elizabeth of York, Moseley
• The Bellwether, Wednesbury
• The Bole Bridge, Tamworth
• The Black Horse, Northfield
• The Mare Pool, Mere Green
• St. Matthew’s Hall, Walsall
• The Bloxwich Showman, Bloxwich
• The Avion, Aldridge
• The Pump House, Shirley
• The Navigation Inn, Kings Norton
• The Reginald Mitchell, Hanley
• The Counting House, Congleton
• The Wheatsheaf, Stoke on Trent
• The Wye Bridge House, Buxton
• The Bradley Green, Biddulph
• The Arnold Machin, Newcastle Under Lyme
• The Poste of Stone, Stone
• The Wheatsheaf, Cheadle
• The Green Dragon, Leek
• The George Inn, Sandbach
• The Picture House, Stafford
• The Lord Burton, Burton On Trent
• The Acorn Inn, Lichfield
• The Felix Holt, Nuneaton
• The Plaza, Rugeley
• The Linford Arms, Cannock
• The Monkey Walk, Coalville
• The Sir Nigel Gresley, Swadlincote
• The Bear & Ragged Staff, Bedworth
• The Old Swan, Uttoxeter
• The Shoulder of Mutton, Ashby De La Zouch
• The Hedgeford Lodge, Hednesford
• The Flying Standard, Coventry
• Golden Cross Hotel, Bromsgrove
• The Exchange, Banbury
• The Benjamin Satchwell, Leamington Spa
• The Old Swanne Inne, Evesham
• The Golden Bee, Stratford upon Avon
• The City Arms, Coventry
• The Thomas Lloyd, Warwick
• The Spon Gate, Coventry
• The Royal Enfield, Redditch

North West

• The Raven, Liverpool
• The Thomas Frost, Liverpool
• The Navigator, Liverpool
• The Childwall Fiveways Hotel, Liverpool
• The North Western, Liverpool
• The Captain Alexander, Liverpool
• Woodrow Wilson, Carlisle
• The Furness Railway, Barrow
• The Henry Bessemer, Workington
• The Miles Thompson, Kendal
• The Bransty Arch, Whitehaven
• The Dog Beck, Penrith
• The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Keswick
• The Trawl Boat Inn, Lytham St. Annes
• The Sir Richard Owen, Lancaster
• The Thomas Drummond, Fleetwood
• The Eric Bartholomew, Morecambe
• The Layton Rakes, Blackpool
• The Jolly Tars, Cleveleys
• The Railway Hotel, Lytham St. Annes
• The Poulton Elk, Poulton Le Fylde
• The Square Bottle, Chester
• The Penny Black, Northwich
• Hoylake Lights, Hoylake
• The Brass Balance, Birkenhead
• The Dee Hotel, West Kirby
• The Wheatsheaf, Ellesmere Port
• The Clairville, Wallasey
• The Queens Arms, Winsford
• The Prense Well, Heswall
• The Bull and Stirrup Hotel, Chester

South East

• The Penny Black, Bicester
• The Temeraire, Saffron Walden
• The William Morris, Cowley
• The Narrows, Abingdon
• The Port Jackson, Bishop’s Stortford
• The Company of Weavers, Witney
• The Wheatsheaf Inn, Wisbech
• Globe Hotel, Kings Lynn
• The Draper’s Arms, Peterborough
• The George Hotel, Whittlesey
• The Romany Rye, East Dereham
• The Hippodrome, March

East of England

• The Bell Hotel, Norwich
• The Troll Cart, Great Yarmouth
• The Whiffler, Norwich
• The Golden Lion, Newmarket
• The Willow Tree, Stowmarket
• The Joseph Conrad, Lowestoft
• The Kings Head Hotel, Beccles
• The Corn Exchange, Bury St Edmunds
• The Red Lion, Thetford
• The William Adams, Gorleston

South West

• Wetherspoons, Milton Keynes
• The Pilgrim’s Progress, Bedford
• The Drabbet Smock, Haverhill
• Sandford House, Huntingdon
• The Weeping Ash, St. Neots
• The Swan Hotel, Leighton Buzzard
• The Manor House, Royston
• The Swan & Angel, St Ives
• The Crown Hotel, Biggleswade
• Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party, Bletchley
• The Three Magnets, Letchworth
• The Crown, Berkhamsted
• The Standing Order, Stevenage
• The Six Templars, Hertford
• The William Aylmer, Harlow
• The Gary Cooper, Dunstable
• The White Hart, Aylesbury
• The Angel Vaults Inn, Hitchin
• The Ernehale, Arnold
• The Joseph Else, Nottingham
• The Woodthorpe Top, Mapperley
• The Free Man, Carlton
• The Samuel Hall, Sherwood
• The Butter Cross, Bingham
• Trent Bridge Inn, West Bridgford

Senior consumer reporter Olivia Marshall explains how.

Free refills – Buy a £1.50 tea, coffee or hot chocolate and you can get free refills. The deal is available all day, every day.

Check a map – Prices can vary from one location the next, even those close to each other.

So if you’re planning a pint at a Spoons, it’s worth popping in nearby pubs to see if you’re settling in at the cheapest.

Choose your day – Each night the pub chain runs certain food theme nights.

For instance, every Thursday night is curry club, where diners can get a main meal and a drink for a set price cheaper than usual.

Pick-up vouchers – Students can often pick up voucher books in

their local near universities, which offer discounts on food and drink, so keep your eyes peeled.

Get appy – The Wetherspoons app allows you to order and pay for your drink and food from your table – but you don’t need to be in the pub to use it. 

Taking full advantage of this, cheeky customers have used social media to ask their friends and family to order them drinks. The app is free to download on the App Store or Google Play.

Check the date – Every year, Spoons holds its Tax Equality Day to highlight the benefits of a permanently reduced tax bill for the pub industry.

It usually takes place in September, and last year it fell on Thursday, September 14.

As well as its 12-day Real Ale Festival every Autumn, Wetherspoons also holds a Spring Festival.

Montell and Johannes Quickstep to Get Happy by Ella Fitzgerald

Sarah and Vito Rumba to Chains by Tina Arena

Tasha and Aljaz American Smooth to Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi

Chris and Dianne Paso Doble to El Gato Montes by Manuel Panella

Jamie and Michelle Foxtrot to Stand By Me by Ben E. King

JB and Lauren Charleston to Yes Sir! That’s My Baby by Firehouse Five Plus Two

Pete and Jowita Tango to Easy Lover by Philip Bailey, Phil Collins

Fabulous’ Fashion Director, Tracey Lea Sayer shares her thoughts.

I WAS 10 when I first discovered the utter joy of high street shopping for clothes with my mum and nan.

Going into town on Saturday became a family tradition – a girls’ day out we would look forward to all week.

My mum’s favourite shop was M&S, where she would gaze at jackets with big shoulder pads and floral sundresses, while my nan would make a beeline for John Lewis and their classic coats and elegant court shoes.

I was all over Tammy Girl – Etam’s little sister – and Chelsea Girl, which was later rebranded to high street fave River Island.

I would spend hours in the changing rooms, watched keenly by my two cheerleaders, who gave the thumbs up – or thumbs down – on what I was trying on.

Frilly Ra-Ra skirts, duster coats, polka dot leggings, puff balls, boob tubes… I tried them all, often making my nan howl with laughter.

Fashion wasn’t so fast back in the 1980s and every item was cherished and worn until it fell apart – literally – at the seams.

At 18, I went to art college and my tastes became more refined.

Extra cash from a part-time job in a bar meant I could move on to slightly more expensive stores, like Warehouse, Miss Selfridge and the mecca that was Topshop.

I knew at this point I wanted to work in fashion because the high street had totally seduced me.

One day, I wrote an article for a competition in a glossy mag about my love of retail therapy and my favourite LBD – and I won!

That led me to where I am today – Fashion Director of Fabulous.

It’s not just me that loves the high street – big-name designers are fans, too. When ‘Cool Britannia’ hit in the Nineties, they all turned up in one big store.

‘Designers at Debenhams’ was a stroke of genius by Debenhams CEO Belinda Earl, designer Ben de Lisi and fashion director Spencer Hawken, who introduced diffusion ranges from John Rocha, Matthew Williamson and Betty Jackson to name a few.

This meant we could all afford a bit of luxury and wear a well-known designer’s signature style.

Years later I hosted a night with Debenhams and Fabulous for 250 readers, who were in awe meeting all the designers. It was a real career highlight for me.

In 2004, H&M started rolling out their international designer collabs.

Karl Lagerfeld was first, followed by Roberto Cavalli, Marni, Stella McCartney, Maison Martin Margiela, Sonia Rykiel, Comme des Garçons, Balmain, Versace and many, many more. I could barely contain myself!

Then in 2007, Kate Moss launched her first collection with Topshop, with thousands queuing along London’s Oxford Street.

I remember sitting behind Ms Moss and Topshop boss Philip Green at a London Fashion Week Topshop Unique catwalk show.

I had my three-year-old daughter, Frankie, in tow and we both made the news the next day after we were papped behind Kate, my supermodel girl crush.

At the time, the high street was on fire. Who needed designer buys when Mango stocked tin foil trousers just like the designer Isabel Marant ones and you could buy a bit of Barbara Hulanicki’s legendary brand Biba from Topshop?

High street stores even started to storm London Fashion week.

Although Topshop Unique had shown collections since 2001, in 2013 River Island showed its first collection in collaboration with global superstar Rihanna, who was flown in by a friend of mine on a private jet. KER-CHING!

A whole new generation of high profile high street collabs followed.

Beyoncé created Ivy Park with Topshop’s Philip Green and I even flew to LA for Fabulous to shoot the Kardashian sisters in their bodycon “Kollection” for Dorothy Perkins.

I am pleased to say they were the absolute dream cover stars.

Fast forward to 2024 and while the high street doesn’t look exactly like it did pre-Covid, it has made a gallant comeback.

Stores like M&S, Reserved and Zara, and designer collabs like Victoria Beckham X Mango and Rochelle Humes for Next are giving me all the feels.

The supermarkets have really come into their own, too, smashing it with gorgeous collections that look expensive, but at prices that still allow us to afford the weekly shop.

The last 30 years of high street fashion have been one big adventure for me. Bring on the next 30!