Friends Life confirms staff jobs under threat

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Friends Life has announced some jobs may be at risk as it closes its Basingstoke office and consolidate its two Manchester offices by the end of 2012.

There are 140 employees at Spring Gardens and 155 in the Basingstoke office. A Friends Life spokesperson confirmed some, but not all, of the 295 jobs involved are at risk, and added a definite n...

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