Travel store in Chichester's city centre permanently closes

The travel store on West Street is the latest business to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

A Flight Centre spokesperson said: "We are deeply saddened to see the affect COVID19 has had on the travel industry.

"Like all organisations in the leisure and business travel sectors, we are having to make some very difficult decisions and sadly one of those is to close our store on West Street in Chichester.

"Rest assured, we are still committed to looking after our customers and our people continue to work incredibly hard from home to ensure that all our customers are in safe hands with one of the largest independent travel companies in the world."

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