Imminent departure of The Body Shop from Grimsby will be further setback for ailing town centre

IT was today confirmed that the Grimsby branch of The Body Shop is one of 75 across the UK that will close within the next four to six weeks.

The long-established company is in the hands of administrators after a long period of difficult trading.

The full list of branches set to disappear from town centres is:

* Aylesbury

* Banbury

* Barnstaple

* Basildon

* Battersea

* Bedford

* Beverley

* Bexleyheath

* Blackburn

* Blackpool

* Bournemouth Commercial Rd

* Bolton

* Brixton

* Broughton Park

* Bury

* Camberley

* Carlisle

* Carmarthen

* Chippenham

* Cirencester

* Croydon

* Didcot

* Durham

* East Kilbride

* Edinburgh Gyle Centre

* Edinburgh Princes Mall

* Epsom

* Fareham

* Farnborough

* Glasgow Braehead

* Glasgow Fort

* Glasgow Silverburn

* Glasgow Station

* Grimsby (Victoria Street)

* Halifax

* Harlow

* Hastings

* Hempstead Valley

* High Wycombe

* Huddersfield

* Hull

* Ilford

* Ipswich

* Isle of Wight

* Islington

* Kendal

* Kings Lynn

* Leeds White Rose

* Lewisham Centre

* Lichfield

* Loughborough

* Luton

* Macclesfield

* Middlesbrough

* Morpeth

* Newton Abbot

* Northampton

* Oldham

* Perth

* Peterborough Queensgate

* Portsmouth

* Regent Street

* Salisbury

* Stafford

* Stanstead Airside

* Stratford Upon Avon

* Swansea

* Telford

* Thanet

* Trowbridge

* Wakefield 

* Walthamstow

* Wigan

* Woking

* Wolverhampton

Seven other stores shut earlier this month:

* Surrey Quays (London)

* Oxford Street  (London)

* Canary Wharf (London)

* Cheapside (London)

* Nuneaton

* Ashford 

* Bristol 

As in other towns, the company's departure from Grimsby will create another shop vacancy.