Controversial Wetherspoons pub opens on M40 motorway
A controversial new JD Wetherspoon pub opens at a motorway service station in Buckinghamshire today. The Hope and Champion in Beaconsfield will be open from 4am to 1am seven days a week.
Wetherspoons motorway services pub opens today
A new Wetherspoons pub at the M40 services in Beaconsfield will open today, despite controversy over the availability of alcohol to drivers.
The company has spent more than £1.1 million on the Hope and Champion, which is at the Extra Motorway Service Area at junction 2 of the M40. It is the first pub to be opened at a motorway service station.
The pub will be open from 4am to 1am seven days a week, selling real ale from local and regional brewers as well as hot drinks.
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