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More than 200 new jobs will be created by a logistics firm after its purchase of a new warehouse.

Boughey Distribution said the 332,000 sq ft site at Lymedale Business Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, would help expand its capacity.

The company provides warehousing and distribution services to the food industry and already employs 800 people in warehouses in Wardle and Crewe in Cheshire.

It has agreed a 15-year-lease on the facility and said 250 local jobs would be created once fully operational in the autumn.

The new warehouse will provide an additional 52,000 pallet spaces which bosses said would accommodate customer growth.

Managing director Angela Carus said the company had been on the look-out for a suitable site for some time.

"The warehouse is of the highest specification and within easy reach of our two sites," she explained.

"Demand for space from our existing customers and newly-acquired business is on the increase which is great news for us.”

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