Marks & Spencer has confirmed the closure of a local store café

The popular UK retailer confirmed plans last year to close a handful cafés in its smaller food shops as part of a major revamp of its store network.

It said 11 cafés would be impacted - less than 4% of its stores - with all staff in affected cafes retaining roles within their stores.

Now, M&S has confirmed that the cafe inside its foodhall store in Westbridge Park, in Stone, Staffordshire, will close its doors. The cafe has been open since 2018 but will now shut to make way for extra products in the store.

A closing date for the cafe has yet to be confirmed.

David Hughes, Regional Manager at M&S, said: “As we look to modernise our food business and offer the best of M&S Food to more people, more often, we’re investing in our store estate.