Wetherspoons will spend £5m to build first ever ‘Super Spoons’ complete with Britain’s biggest beer garden & hotel

WETHERSPOONS is about to start work on a new mega-boozer — complete with Britain’s biggest beer garden.

The pub chain will plough in £5million to create its first “Super Spoons”, which will have a 26-bedroom hotel and an army of around 200 staff.

Work starts on Monday to expand The Mile Castle in Newcastle — already one of the area’s largest boozers.

It will double in size, with the chain’s first hotel in the city going up next door, plus a 3,000sq ft outdoor space.

The venue is to close next month before a planned September reopening.

The Super Spoons idea has been in development since 2018 but was halted by Covid.

Wetherspoons boss Sir Tim Martin said: “The investment highlights our commitment to the pub, its customers and staff, as well as the city of Newcastle.”

He revealed this week that sales have risen 5.2 per cent.

The chain has disposed of 18 pubs and opened two in the past year.