BRITISH retailer Cath Kidston will reportedly shut all 60 of its stores in the UK following financial struggles during the coronavirus crisis.

The fashion business will continue trading online but only 32 out of more than 900 people will retain their jobs.

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Currently, there are two Cath Kidston stores in Oxfordshire - one in Oxford's Westgate shopping centre and one in Bicester - which will not reopen after the pandemic.

The chain appointed Alvarez & Marsal as its administrators on April 3.