FAREHAM'S Wetherspoons is set to close.

The Lord Arthur Lee, on West Street, is one of seven JD Wetherspoon pubs across the UK that has been marked for closure.

A spokesperson for JD Wetherspoon confirmed that the seven sites will remain open until they are sold. 

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The others are the Coronet in Holloway, Cross Keys in Peebles, General Sir Redvers Buller in Crediton, Plough & Harrow in Hammersmith, Saltoun Inn in Fraserburgh and the Thomas Leaper in Derby.

They join the 32 that were put on the market in September, which included The Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis in Southampton.

Wetherspoon has more than 800 pubs and hotels across the UK and Ireland. 

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