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Rok cuts further 1,800 jobs

THE collapsed construction firm Rok - which employs hundreds in the region - has announced a further 1,800 redundancies after efforts to sell some parts of the business failed.

Administrators PwC reportedly said the jobs would go in the maintenance division across the UK and in the construction business in Scotland.

They are still trying to find a buyer for the social housing division and the construction business in England, which employ 500 people.

A total of 2,600 jobs have now gone.

Rok plc and Rok Building Limited, based in Exeter, Devon, were put into administration earlier this month.

Earlier in the year, the loss-making firm said it had uncovered “serious failings” in financial and operational controls.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .