THE BrightHouse store in Taunton has been saved as the rent-to-own retailer closes 30 shops across the country.

In Somerset, the Yeovil store is among those closing, leading to a total of 350 job losses nationwide.

It is the latest high profile company suffering tough conditions on the high street and a clampdown on the amount of interest rent-to-own traders - when customers make monthly payments on household items - can charge.

A BrightHouse spokesman said: "We are working to redeploy as many people as possible into alternative roles but redundancies will be inevitable."

The full list of BrightHouse stores closing is -

Aylesbury

Basingstoke

Bognor Regis

Bromley

Cowley

Dunstable

Eccles

Gravesend

Haverfordwest

High Wycombe

Leeds Merrion

Macclesfield

Maidstone

Newark

Newport (Isle of Wight)

Nuneaton

Perth

Rugby

Scarborough

Seaham

Selby

Southport

Stafford

Stirling

Thetford

Trowbridge

Watford

Weymouth

Whitehaven

Yeovil.