Pizza Hut is to shut the sites despite being bought in a rescued deal, which will preserve 64 restaurants and save 1,277 jobs.

Yum! Brands has bought 64 sites, around half the Pizza Hut UK restaurants, saving jobs.

Firm behind venues falls into administration but Yum! Brands buys remainder of operation in Britain

PIZZA Hut has revealed the locations of 68 restaurants which will close. It comes after DC London Pie Limited, the pizza' chains UK owner, appointed...

Pizza Hut will also shut 11 delivery locations after the firm running its UK restaurants entered administration. ......

The move will lead to more than 1,200 redundancies, but 64 other restaurants will be saved.

Administrators said the business had been hit by "challenging trading conditions and increased costs".

Pizza Hut is also set to shut 11 delivery locations...

Restaurants in Dundee, Edinburgh, Falkirk, and Inverness are set to close.

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