Daily Gazette

The ambitious expansion plans come a month after Wingstop’s UK arm was taken over by a US private equity firm, for more than £400 million.

Wingstop UK said that at least ten new locations will open in the first half of the year.

These will include a new dine-in restaurant in Lakeside in Thurrock, marking the third in Essex, with sites already in Southend and Chelmsford.

Other restaurants planned are in Swansea, Newcastle, Streatham in south London and Cardigan Fields in Leeds.

The brand will also open a further delivery kitchen in Brighton.

Two drug dealers who attempted to acquire a handgun have been jailed following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

The Taurus self-loading pistol was intercepted and seized by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport on July 27, 2023.

It was hidden inside the packaging for a metallic safe box, along with two empty 9mm magazines.

McNeil Colly, 48, from south London, and Keston Redhead, 35, an asylum seeker from Trinidad and Tobago, were found guilty of importation of a firearm and conspiracy to import class A drugs following a seven-week trial.