HELENSBURGH pub goers will soon be able to raise a glass at a new venue in the town which is set to open next month.

The former Logie Baird pub in James Street, which has lain vacant since mid-2019, is to be transformed into a new pub called The Dapper Dug.

The site’s last operators, Cara and Milan Nikolic, who also run the Cattle and Creel, La Barca and Padrone Pizzeria restaurants in the Burgh, shut the premises more than two years ago - despite successfully appealing against a council-imposed curfew period.

Following a spate of police incidents the local authority’s licensing board introduced an 11pm curfew on Friday and Saturday evenings, and although the couple overturned the sanction two months later they failed to find a new company to meet a condition that its door stewarding firm was replaced.

The couple took over the site in 2017 and restored the C listed building, which had changed hands a number of times in the preceding five years and had fallen into disrepair.

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The building, which was also home to the La Scala cinema in a past life and first opened in 1913, was previously marketed for sale with a guide price of £325,000.

The new operators say that around 20 jobs are set to be created at the new pub with management roles being advertised alongside bar and waiting staff, kitchen staff, house keeper positions and door stewards.

The Dapper Dug’s parent company, C.J. Leisure Group, also manages similar venues in Carluke, Blantyre and Hamilton.

The pub is due to open in mid-November and anyone interested in applying for any of the vacancies is asked to email a copy of their CV to people@cjleisure.co.uk.

More information can be found by searching for @TheDapperDug on Facebook.