JAMIE Oliver’s new restaurant, Union Jacks, in Winchester is now recruiting for 35 jobs.

The High Street branch, the first outside London, is due to open at the end of May.

Mr Oliver said: “It’s fantastic that our first Union Jacks outside of London will be in Winchester because it’s such a beautiful city and in a wonderful part of the UK.

“Union Jacks has really captured the imagination of people in Chiswick and central London and I hope the same will be true when we get to Winchester.

Mr Oliver said he hoped to support Hampshire producers: “I hope we can get some local suppliers and even foragers to come to us so we can start using some produce from the area.”