A Morrisons shop in Blackburn is set to close its doors today (November 23).

A spokesperson for the supermarket giant confirmed the Morrisons Daily, in Openshaw Drive, will officially close on Wednesday.

The Blackburn shop is one of 132 earmarked for closure across the UK.

Back in May, Morrisons took over supermarket chain McColl’s after it fell into administration.

At the end of October it announced which stores it intended to close and also revealed more about its plans to convert McColl’s stores to its own Morrisons Daily brand.

As part of a previous partnership, 286 of the currently trading 1,164 McColl’s stores are already under the Morrisons Daily banner.

Morrisons said it now plans to convert the “substantial majority” of stores to Morrisons Dailys following a review, with plans to bring the total under the banner to more than 1,000 within two years.

Joseph Sutton, Morrisons’ convenience, online and wholesale director, said: “We have a great deal of work to do but there’s no question that McColl’s is a business with strong potential.

“I’m confident that the combination of McColl’s conveniently located stores and great colleagues, together with Morrisons scale, brand, systems and fresh food expertise, will lead to a transformation of the business.

“We very much regret the proposed closure of 132 loss-making stores but it is, very sadly, an important step towards the regeneration of the business.

“I am confident that McColl’s can, in the Morrisons family, once again become a growing, thriving and vibrant convenience business serving local communities across the UK.”

It isn’t the only Lancashire store to have shutdown; Morrisons closed the McColl’s on Gladstone Street, Bacup, earlier this month.