High street chain with over 500 locations shuts long-standing branch and launches huge closing down sale

A POPULAR high street chain with more than 500 locations is shutting one of its branches — and everything inside must go.

The Works in Acocks Green, Birmingham, which has been a familiar face on Warwick Road for over 20 years, is holding a huge closing down sale, with posters in the window reading: “Sorry, we are closing! Everything must go.”

The closure follows several other big-name exits from the area, including Costa Coffee, which shut earlier this year

The stationery...