The Body Shop to cut 489 jobs, with 75 more shops to close; UK mortgage approvals highest since mini-budget chaos – business live

The administrators running The Body Shop have announced that nearly 500 staff will be made redundant within the next six weeks.

They have decided to close 75 stores Body Shop stores over the next four to six weeks, on top of the seven closures announced last week.

This means that 489 staff will “regrettably be made redundant over the next 4-6 weeks as individual stores are closed”, administrators from the…