Another 45 jobs have been axed at the Keighley headquarters of the firm behind national soft furnishings chain Ponden Mill.

The Marston Mills Group, based in Royd Ings Avenue, went into administration late last year, citing increased overheads and a fall in consumer spending.

The latest redundancies mean a total of 89 jobs have been shed at the headquarters and its attached warehouse.

The first batch of 44 redundancies was made public last month.

Announcing the second wave of job losses on Tuesday, a spokesman for Marston Mills' administrators, Ernst & Young, said: "Unfortunately, as part of a reduction in the company's warehouse operation, it has been necessary to make 41 redundancies at the company's facility in Keighley.

"A further four redundancies have also been made in the offices at the company's headquarters."

Darren Ross, a former forklift truck driver at the warehouse, said he discovered he had lost his job on December 28.

He had worked for the firm for four-and-a-half years.

Mr Ross, 24, of Fell Lane, said he and his colleagues had been "kept in the dark" and were initially told their jobs would be safeguarded.

He said he understood there were now only about a dozen people employed in the warehouse.

Ernst & Young's spokeswoman said the administrators were still working to sell off the remaining assets formerly owned by Marston Mills, to protect jobs elsewhere.

Last week, it was revealed that Poundstretcher, a subsidiary of Huddersfield-based budget retailer Instore, had agreed to take control of 33 of the larger Ponden Mill stores, preserving 384 jobs.

Ponden Mill employs about 1,300 workers across the country and has shops in Stanbury, Bradford, Skipton and Keighley's Airedale Shopping Centre.