Troubled supermarket behemoth Tesco has named the 43 stores it is closing across the country, however jobs are safe for now in Cornwall as staff in the duchy escape the axe.

Express and Home Plus stores targeted for closure will close on March 15 with the Tesco Metros and Superstores on the list closing on 4 April, with the closures expected to cost thousands of workers their jobs.

Seven superstores, six Homeplus stores, 18 Express and 12 Metro stores will close.

The 43 stores are being shut as part of cost cutting plans.

Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis said: "Our priority is to explain what this announcement means for our colleagues and, wherever possible, offer them alternative roles with Tesco," he added.

List in full

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