Tesco has named the 43 stores it will close as part of its plans to reinvigorate the business.

The closures include 18 Express stores, 12 Metro stores, seven superstores and six Homeplus stores across the UK.

They include a Metro store in Bicester, Oxfordshire, which C-Store has identified as the most Tesco-dominated town in the UK in terms of store numbers per head of population.

The closures will affect around 2,000 jobs.

Tesco CEO Dave Lewis said: “In January I announced that our performance as a business has fallen significantly short of where we would want it to be and that to protect the future of the business in the UK we would close 43 unprofitable stores.

“The decision to close the stores has been exceptionally difficult to take.  I recognise it will affect many hard working colleagues, our customers and local communities. 

“Our priority is to explain what this announcement means for our colleagues and wherever possible, offer them alternative roles with Tesco.  We will continue to serve our customers through other local stores and our dotcom service.”

See the full list of store closures below. 

Tesco Express stores:      

Bearwood

Belvedere

Church Street Ballymena

Heaton Chapel

Heybridge Essex

Houghton Regis

Liverpool Kensington

Longbridge Road Barking

Northfield Birmingham

Raymouth Lane Worksop

Sheffield Manor

South Tottenham High Road

Tredegar

Troon

Walsall Wood

Wealdstone

Whitley Bay

York Road Hartlepool

Tesco Metro stores:      

Bicester

Bootle

Caerphilly

Crossgates

Devizes

Grangemouth

Mexborough

Morecambe

Ormskirk

Runcorn

Smethwick

Woodseats

Tesco Superstores:      

Bedlington

Chatham

Connswater

Cregagh Road

Doncaster

Kirkcaldy

Wrexham Doods Lane

Tesco Homeplus:      

Bristol Cribbs

Chelmsford

Chester

Edinburgh

Southampton

Staines