No happy return for Birthdays

OLDHAM has lost another store in the Spindles-Town Square precinct with the closure of the Birthdays card outlet.

Around 750 jobs will be lost at the card chain with the closure of 136 stores, administrators have announced. Birthdays, which employed 2,100 people and had 332 outlets, was placed into administration by parent company Clinton Cards last month. Clinton has an outlet almost opposite the former Birthdays unit.

Clintons has bought back 196 shops and administrators Zolfo Cooper but will close the remaining stores.