JD Wetherspoon has seen its sales rise ahead of pre-pandemic levels and returned to a half-year profit.
The hospitality company, which runs 843 pubs in the UK and Ireland - including 65 in Scotland - reported a 5% increase in sales over the six months to 29 January, compared with the same period in 2019, and up 13% compared with the previous year.
Wetherspoon made a pre-tax profit of £4.6m, compared with a loss of £21.3m in the same period last year. But it was still a 90% decline compared with its pre-Covid figure of £50m in the first half of 2019.
