An image of the proposed front of the pub was also included with the drawings, showing where doors, windows and a sign containing the pub name would go. The idea of a Lidl pub has, understandably, caused a stir amongst shoppers, who say they are ‘buzzing’ to have a drink there and claim it will be ‘amazing’.

A High Court rejects a legal challenge to the plans, which would see a tap room installed in Lidl's Dundonald store.

A legal win has cleared the way for Lidl to open its first pub in the North inside one of its stores after the High Court rejected a challenge to the proposal.

The High Court has granted the supermarket permission to go ahead with the plans to open the boozer in its Dundonald store in County Down near Belfast

A legal win has cleared the way for discount supermarket Lidl to open its first pub inside one of its stores after the High Court rejected a challenge to the proposal. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The supermarket chain has been granted approval by a High Court to open its first ever UK pub near Belfast in Northern Ireland.

The off licence operator said Lidl failed to demonstrate there weren’t already shops or pubs in the area that were already selling alcohol, something that Lidl needed to do so i

Lidl is opening a pub in one of its supermarkets in the UK. The High Court has granted the supermarket permission to go ahead with the plans to open the pub in its Dundonald store in County Down near Belfast.