JD Wetherspoon has announced it will open 12 pubs – three of which will have hotels – between now and September.

The group is opening two new pubs – The Hay Stook in East Kilbride and The Posset Cup in Portishead – today

It also started work yesterday on a pub and 12 bedroom hotel in Northolt and a pub in Chatham.

A spokesman for the company said a further four pubs and two hotels – in Largs, Wellington, Okehampton and Huntingdon - go on site next Monday.

The Okehampton pub will feature a 20 bedroom hotel and the Huntingdon pub a 22 bedroom hotel.

Each of the six pubs and three hotels will open between late June and mid-September 2016.

Wetherspoon’s will also be opening new pubs in Beverley, Newton-le-Willows, Edinburgh and Formby between April and June.