Marks and Spencer is set to close its distribution centre in Woolston, it has been announced.

The Hardwick Grange site will close in September as part of the company’s ‘five-year transformation programme’, putting around 450 jobs at risk.

M&S says that creating a combined clothing and home logistics network will allow it to move products from suppliers to stores ‘faster and at a lower cost’.

As part of this move, it will move to a smaller network of large distribution.

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