Administrators PwC said 52 branches of the discount retailer will shut next week. Sky News understands the latest closures and redundancies are not part of the B&M deal.
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Hundreds of jobs will be lost at Wilko in the first tranche of redundancies after a bid for the entirety of the collapsed retailer fell through.A potential bidder, the only one which planned to protect all 12,500 employees and 400 Wilko sites, missed.