Amazon to close Milton Keynes fulfilment centre, affecting 590 workers

The site was the UK’s first Amazon warehouse and staff will be offered a transfer to a new Northampton site or elsewhere

Amazon is planning to close one of its UK fulfilment centres, offering workers the chance to transfer to another site.

The company announced a consultation on a proposal to close the site in Milton Keynes, which was the first Amazon centre to open in the UK, in 1998.