The store in Commercial Road will close on April 14. All 135 colleagues who work at the store will be moving to nearby stores.

Marks and Spencer’s Commercial Road branch had been a fixture in the town since 1930 and its closure was described by Tony Brown, the boss of its rival Beales, as a blow to Bournemouth.

It comes as a shock to locals and shoppers, who go to enter the popular shop to find the doors locked and notices posted on ...

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