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Lloyds Banking Group is to close all 164 branches of Cheltenham & Gloucester, risking up to 1,500 jobs.
The Forensic Science Service (FSS) may axe up to 800 jobs, according to the Prospect trade union.
Twenty eight jobs are being lost at the Royal Bank of Scotland International's (RBSI) operations in Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar.
Lloyds Banking Group plans to shed 530 jobs and close one site in Kent. All jobs will go before year-end.
QinetiQ, a defence research and technology company, has announced it is cutting 400 jobs. The business operates over 40 sites with major facilities located at Farnborough in Hampshire, Malvern in Worcestershire and Boscombe Down, Wiltshire
Lloyds Banking Group has announced it is cutting a further 210 full-time jobs from across the UK by the end of 2010.
Retailer Clinton Cards has put its subsidiary chain of 223 Birthdays stores into administration, putting more than 2,000 jobs at risk.
Fashion retailer Bay Trading is to shed about 1,230 jobs and close 125 outlets after administrators agreed a deal to sell the chain.
Lloyds Banking Group has announced it is cutting 625 jobs in the UK. The job losses will be evenly split between Scotland and England & Wales.
Designer fashion store Cruise has closed three stores and is reviewing a number of others after being forced to call in administrators. About 30 jobs have been lost but it is not known how many others posts may be under threat.
BT says it will cut about 15,000 jobs this year, mostly in the UK. The firm also said it had cut 15,000 jobs in the past year, which was 5,000 more than expected.
Lebara Mobile is creating 130 jobs and opening a new customer services centre in London. One hundred of the positions will be in the capital with the others spread across the midlands, the north and Scotland.
The insurance firm Legal & General has begun consulting on plans to cut 560 jobs in its savings business. Its main offices are in London, Cardiff, Brighton and Kingswood in Surrey.
Shropshire stationery supplier Lyreco UK has announced plans to cut more than 60 jobs across the UK and Ireland.
Tyneside-based software giant Sage is to shed 200 jobs across its 23 offices in the UK.
Wolseley, a company that supplies the construction industry, is to lay off 269 people in Lancashire and Oxfordshire.
Defence giant BAE Systems is to close three factories in the UK, resulting in the loss of 500 jobs. The sites at Telford, Leeds and Guildford will close by the end of the year.
Scottish Widows has been chosen to carry forward pensions and investment products for the Lloyds Banking Group, but more than 300 staff will be cut.
Wind turbine-maker Vestas Wind Systems is to cut 1,900 jobs - mainly in the UK and Denmark - despite reporting a 70% rise in quarterly profits. It will be closing its UK turbine plant on the Isle of Wight, cutting 450 jobs.
GreenThumb, a company which maintains garden lawns, is to create 1,000 new jobs. The firm, which has 186 branches across the UK, said business had boomed in the recession as more people invest in their homes rather than move.
UK insurer Aviva is to cut 1,100 permanent jobs and 590 contract positions during 2009. The majority of the jobs being lost are at the offices in York, Norwich, Sheffield and Eastleigh
Railway engineer Jarvis is to cut about 450 jobs as its largest customer, Network Rail, reduces spending
Nortel Networks UK has gone into administration after its parent firm filed for US bankruptcy protection. The company announced that 228 posts were going across the UK
Europe's biggest bank, HSBC, has said up to 1,200 of its staff in the UK could face redundancy. An operation centre in Leamington Spa, near Warwick, will lose 280 positions; a call centre in Newport, Wales, will be shut down; and about 150 jobs will be lost in London
Snooker clubs group Rileys has gone into administration with the loss of 200 jobs and closure of 30 sites due to a downturn in trade and large debts.
The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) is to cut 1,000 jobs.
At least 320 jobs are to go at distribution centres belonging to catering supplies company King UK . The sites affected are in Rugby, Hemel Hempstead, Cumbernauld, Northampton, Plymouth, Skelmersdale, Birmingham, Medway, Rotherham and Cardiff
Department store chain Debenhams says it will create 1,200 jobs by the end of 2010
A total of 400 redundancies are made at Wrekin Construction Group after the firm goes into administration. Redundancies are made at bases across Shropshire, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Cheshire
Principles announces that it will close 66 shops blaming current market conditions. A significant number of the 2,300 staff at the high street fashion chain are to go, administrators said. One hundred head office staff have already been made redundant
Broadcaster ITV says it will be cutting 600 jobs as it attempts to reduce costs in the face of a severe advertising downturn
Insurance firm Royal Sun Alliance says it is to cut 1,200 jobs in the UK by the middle of 2010
The BBC learns that insurance firm Legal & General is planning to cut between 250 and 450 jobs. Legal & General's main offices are in London, Cardiff, Brighton and Kingswood in Surrey
Standard Life cuts 195 jobs around the country. They will include 69 jobs in Bristol, 34 in Edinburgh and 13 Glasgow
Mobile phone operator Vodafone announces plans to cut about 500 jobs in the UK, including 170 positions at its head office in Newbury
The administrators of Stylo, which owns the Barratts and PriceLess chains of shoe shops, close 220 stores with the loss of 2,500 jobs. The remaining 160 stores and 165 concession outlets are sold to the former management, saving 3,000 jobs
Two fashion and footwear firms owned by JJB Sports - OSC and Qube - is cutting 438 jobs . The redundancies stem from the closure of 37 of the 64 OSC stores and eight of the 13 Qube stores
Engineering group GKN says it is cutting 564 jobs in the UK. The company says cuts will be made at its plants in Birmingham, Walsall and Telford, and at its aerospace division sites in Burnley and Luton
Fast food chain KFC to create 9,000 new jobs over the next three to five years . It plans to open 300 new outlets over the period
Royal Bank of Scotland says it will cut up to 2,300 jobs as part of a restructuring . The jobs will be lost from its back office operations across the UK
Music, games and DVD chain Zavvi closes another 17 stores , taking the total closures to 72 and number of jobs lost to 1,068, since the company went into administration on Christmas Eve
Holiday camp company Pontin's is to redevelop its holiday centres, creating 2,000 new jobs
US sandwich chain Subway creating 7,000 jobs across the UK and Ireland by the end of 2010, as it plans to open another 600 stores
Asda to create 7,000 jobs across the UK this year
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB to add 1,000 positions
Steelmaker Corus says it is cutting 2,500 jobs in the UK, as part of cost savings that will see it shed 3,500 workers worldwide
About 100 jobs to go at a print firm which has plants in Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire and Northamptonshire. St Ives said 70 staff had already been let go
Barclays is cutting 4,200 jobs from its UK banking operation. Some 400 posts will go in its IT departments. The company said it hoped to avoid compulsory redundancies
Marks and Spencer to close 25 Simply Food stores and two regular stores, losing 780 jobs, as well as cutting 450 head office posts
Jaguar Land Rover to cut 300 managers and 150 salaried agency staff
Adams childrenswear firm closes 111 stores, making 850 staff redundant
Southeastern trains to make 300 people redundant over the coming year
Housebuilder Bovis Homes announces 200 job cuts
Music retailer Zavvi closes 22 stores, costing 180 staff their jobs
Loan firm Cattles to lay off 350 staff at branches across the UK, as well as 650 call centre and support staff in Hull and Nottingham
The Unite union said it was concerned that some of the 5,000 job cuts announced by Swedish telecoms firm Ericsson would go in the UK
TT Electronics said that it was cutting 500 jobs in the UK
Supermarket chain Tesco plans to create up to 10,000 new jobs with new store openings this year
Sainsbury's to create 5,000 new jobs this year, in 50 new convenience stores and a small number of new supermarkets
Supermarket chain Waitrose to create 4,000 new jobs as part of an expansion drive
Frozen food chain Iceland to create 2,500 jobs after buying 51 former Woolworths stores
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