More than 20 people working for bars linked to troubled hospitality firm Macmerry are out of work after their bars were closed without notice - despite assurances days before that their jobs would be safe.
Staff at the Abandon Ship Glasgow and London bars were told on Monday they were being made redundant with immediate effect by email. Boss Phil Donaldson said "extremely challenging trading conditions" were to blame.
However, just 12 days earlier, they had been told they would not be affected by major upsets affecting Donaldson's other businesses which saw his major trading company, Macmerry300 Ltd, voluntarily wound up weeks after HMRC sought to shut the company down over what are understood to be six-figure tax debts.
