Marks and Spencer to open 500 new stores across UK 'with big car parks'

The retailer is vowing to open hundreds of new stores across the UK - with wider aisles to allow bigger shopping trolleys

Marks and Spencer has revealed plans to massively expand the number of its stores in the UK. New plans have emerged that would see M&S open up new sites all across the UK.

A total of 500 locations are being looked at around Britain as it aims to secure hundreds of new sites for grocery shops and double the size of its food business.

Sites being looked at for food stores outside London include Falmouth in Cornwall, Scarborough, St Andrews and Lancaster.

All of the new shops would have wider aisles for bigger shopping trolleys. There would also be larger car parks for family shoppers, the Times reports . More than 50 per cent of M&S' shops are expected to be refur