Triple jobs boost in midlands upturn

The midlands is to get a triple jobs boost amid signs of an upturn in the retail sector.

Shaw’s department store will create up to 15 jobs in an outlet at the Market Square, Longford. The store will be Shaw’s 17th nationwide and the company’s first in the midlands.

Recruitment for the full-time and part-time jobs has begun. The shop is due to open at the unit formerly occupied by Centra by the end of October.