Popular discount store announces another shop closure in blow to high street

The high street discount store announced further closures across the UK (Picture: The Original Factory Shop)

Eleven branches of the Original Factory Shop will shut in the coming weeks after the discount chain announced further closures.

The group’s store in Middlewich, Cheshire, will close its doors for good on Saturday, June 28.

It’s the latest location earmarked for closure by the group, which had already announced the shuttering of 10 stores over the next month, including branches in Dorset, Aberdeenshire and Cumbria.