NINETY full and part-time jobs will have been created when a new pub opens in the Quadrant Centre in Bournemouth on Monday (August 18).

JD Wetherspoon plc, which operates 680 pubs throughout the UK, purchased the former Bar Med site in St Peter's Road for an undisclosed sum and has invested £535,000 refurbishing it.

The pub, which has capacity for 950 customers, has been renamed The Mary Shelley after the famous author who penned the classic Frankenstein and who is buried at St Peter's Church.

Jobs at the venue include management positions through to kitchen, floor and bar staff, with salaries starting from £5.52 an hour.

A spokeswoman for JD Wetherspoon explained: "The Bar Med site was a particularly good one and we didn't want to miss the opportunity."

There are already two other Wetherspoon pubs in Bournemouth: The Moon in the Square and The Parkstone and Heathlands.

In Boscombe there is the Sir Percy Florence Shelley and in Poole the operator runs the Lord Wimborne and The Quay.

Earlier in the year Wetherspoon's chief executive John Hutson responded to customers' changing drinking habits.

He said: "Pubs are changing. People still like to pop out for a pint, but increasingly they come to eat.

"There is a shift away from alcoholic drinks to other products."

Wayne McGraw, pub manager at The Mary Shelley, said that despite the credit crunch: "We expect a very busy pub and kitchen - food will be served all day."

Bournemouth's newest pub will be a Lloyds Wetherspoon, which will play music.

Wetherspoon's is a FTSE 250 company operating traditional pubs that do not play music and Wetherlodges, which are similar to hotels.