Jobs axed as Stuart glass store closes

A glass shop which has been trading for more than 60 years at a world-renowned museum is to close this week.

Nine members of staff at Stuart Crystal Gift Shop have been told their jobs will go tomorrow or on Thursday.

The store at the Red House Glass Cone, in High Street, Wordsley, near Stourbridge, is run by the troubled Waterford Wedgwood group,now in administration.

A US equity company has since bought the business, but it has not been enough to save the Stuart Crystal shop, which sells crystal made at Wedgwood factories.

Manager Jann Richards said: "This came out of the blue. I was called to a meeting at Wedgwood in Stoke and I was told the shop would be closing on Wednesday or Thursday."