Haggis burger anyone? Check out the Burns Night special dish - which comes with a whisky sauce

Fancy a burger with haggis and whisky sauce? Wetherspoons is launching a special menu to mark Burns Night and it includes a quirky take on the traditional fare.

While haggis is always the star of the show when it comes to celebrations of Scotland’s national poet, the pub company has decided to go one better.

Burgers tend to be a universal favourite so it has come up with one which will have a uniquely Scottish flavour.

Soon North East customers will be able to tuck into a Highland Burger, which contains haggis and comes with a sauce made with that favourite Scottish tipple, whisky.

The 6oz burger will be served with chips and six beer-battered onion rings too - and, as an added treat, diners can try a special Robert Burns ale, from Scotland’s oldest working brewery, to go with it.

These will be on the menu in Newcastle from Saturday at The Quayside bar and The Mile Castle - as well as in other Wetherspoons pubs around the region - as part of week-long celebrations to mark the life and poetry of the Scottish poet.