Amazon to create more than 4,000 jobs in UK

Amazon is creating more than 4,000 permanent jobs across the UK this year, the company has announced.

It said the recruitment drive would bring its permanent workforce in the UK to 75,000, having created 40,000 new jobs in the past three years.

Amazon said it had invested £1bn across the UK and was set to be one of the 10 largest private sector employers in the country.

The new roles are spread across the UK and include posts at new fulfilment centres set to open in Wakefield and Knowsley.

The jobs will be split between warehouse work, office work in London and Manchester, and technology roles in Edinburgh and Cambridge.

Shareholders in the Seattle-based company voted against all of the resolutions, most of which focused on worker rights and other social issues.