Jobs axed at Premier Foods in Plymouth

Premier Foods is axing a total of 900 jobs across the UK Credit: Steve Parsons/PA Archive

A number of jobs are to go at Premier Foods in Plymouth which is closing its city bread distribution centre - part of 900 job losses across the UK.

The company, which makes Hovis bread, is shutting four distribution centres in total, including the one on Burrington Road in Plymouth.

The closure will mean the loss of around fifty jobs in Plymouth. The brunt of the losses, however, will be in Birmingham where 511 jobs are to go.

Premier is the UK's largest branded food producer - responsible for Bisto, Hovis, Mr Kipling and Sharwoods.