Jobs axed at garden centre 'as road shut'

AN embattled garden centre owner has claimed he has had to make staff redundant at one of his Devon stores impacted by major roadworks.

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Tony Joyner, who owns Plants Galore, said the loss of sales at his Newton Abbot store - which he claims has been caused by the A382 closure - means he has had to “make a number of good staff redundant through no fault of their own and also cut staff hours”.

Mr Joyner, who has been in a long-running dispute around a compulsory purchase of land linked to the major works on the A382, said the company’s four other stores in Devon and Somerset “continue to expand and go forward”.