Workers accept redundancy notices

Hundreds of workers at Wincanton Logistics, one of the biggest employers in Gloucestershire, have received their redundancy notices.

The company has made 420 people redundant at its depot in Brockworth after a merger with Culina Logistics.

The company, whose business includes delivering frozen foods to supermarkets across the UK, said the depot was too small and unfit for its purpose.

The 90-day redundancy consultation period ended on Sunday.

Wincanton said it was working with local job centres to help staff find new employment.

David Owen, from Gloucestershire First, an economic partnership, said: "We're hoping that we'll be able to announce quite a large training scheme for people that are under threat of redundancy or who have been made redundant, to give them the skills which open up the opportunity to hopefully get back into employment."

Wincanton said that it was trying to find a use for the Brockworth depot building but that if nothing could be found it would close during the first week of June.