{"id":371195,"date":"2026-01-15T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371195\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:01:09","slug":"amazon-plans-to-close-the-first-uk-site-it-opened-in-bedfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371195\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon plans to close the first UK site it opened in Bedfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said the decision was taken to possibly close its Bedfordshire site, called Milton Keynes (Marston Gate), as it was &#8220;always evaluating our network to make sure it fits our business needs and to improve the experience for our employees and customers&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amazon confirmed its sortation centre, also in Magna Park &#8211; which employs 1,100 staff &#8211; would not be affected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US-based business said it was &#8220;investing \u00a340bn in the UK&#8221; between 2025 and 2027, which included four new fulfilment centres and other new delivery stations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amazon said when it opens the new Northampton building &#8211; near junction 15 of the M1 &#8211; it will employ about 1,400 people, with that number set to rise to 2,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company said the decision was taken to possibly close its Bedfordshire site, called Milton Keynes (Marston Gate),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-371195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}