As the level of UK unemployment reaches a 10-year high, the BBC News website is keeping track of jobs lost and created in the months ahead. This is not a comprehensive study but a snapshot from around the UK since 1 January.
The economic downturn has seen the level of UK unemployment reach a 10-year high.
With severe warnings predicting further redundancies to come, the BBC News website will be keeping track of jobs lost, and created, in the months ahead.
This cannot be comprehensive but is intended as a snapshot of the picture around the UK from 1 January onwards. The links in the map above go to jobs news for each region.
UK-WIDE
Marks and Spencer to close 25 Simply Food stores and two regular stores, losing 780 jobs, as well as cutting 450 head office posts
Jaguar Land Rover to cut 300 managers and 150 salaried agency staff
Adams childrenswear firm closes 111 stores, making 850 staff redundant
Southeastern trains to make 300 people redundant over the coming year
Music, games and DVD chain Zavvi closes 26 stores, with the loss of 262 jobs. Fourteen Zavvi stores are bought by retailer HMV, securing 269 jobs
Loan firm Cattles to lay off 350 staff at branches across the UK, as well as 650 call centre and support staff in Hull and Nottingham
Supermarket chain Tesco plans to create up to 10,000 new jobs with new store openings this year
Sainsbury's to create 5,000 new jobs this year, in 50 new convenience stores and a small number of new supermarkets
Supermarket chain Waitrose to create 4,000 new jobs as part of an expansion drive
Frozen food chain Iceland to create 2,500 jobs after buying 51 former Woolworths stores
UK-WIDE
Marks and Spencer to close 25 Simply Food stores and two regular stores, losing 780 jobs, as well as cutting 450 head office posts
Jaguar Land Rover to cut 300 managers and 150 salaried agency staff
Adams childrenswear firm closes 111 stores, making 850 staff redundant
Southeastern trains to make 300 people redundant over the coming year
Music, games and DVD chain Zavvi closes 26 stores, with the loss of 262 jobs. Fourteen Zavvi stores are bought by retailer HMV, securing 269 jobs
Loan firm Cattles to lay off 350 staff at branches across the UK, as well as 650 call centre and support staff in Hull and Nottingham
Supermarket chain Tesco plans to create up to 10,000 new jobs with new store openings this year
Sainsbury's to create 5,000 new jobs this year, in 50 new convenience stores and a small number of new supermarkets
Supermarket chain Waitrose to create 4,000 new jobs as part of an expansion drive
Frozen food chain Iceland to create 2,500 jobs after buying 51 former Woolworths stores
SCOTLAND
Almost 100 workers to be out of work with the closure of an Eddie Stobart haulage depot in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire
SCOTLAND
Almost 100 workers to be out of work with the closure of an Eddie Stobart haulage depot in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire
Fifty-eight jobs to be lost at a JCB factory in Wrexham
Marshalls paving stone maker in consultation over possible closure of concrete factory in Wrexham, threatening 55 jobs, with another 55 at risk England-wide within the firm's consumer arm
Fifty-eight jobs to be lost at a JCB factory in Wrexham
Marshalls paving stone maker in consultation over possible closure of concrete factory in Wrexham, threatening 55 jobs, with another 55 at risk England-wide within the firm's consumer arm
Bradford-based conveyancing firm Hammonds Support Systems to cut 200 jobs after going into administration
Loan firm Cattles to cut 400 jobs in Hull, predominantly at two call centres
Leeds-based electrical goods retailer Empire Direct lays off 90 store and head office workers in Yorkshire, and 68 more staff at shops across England. A further 192 staff, mostly in Yorkshire, are working with administrators but face redundancy
Burberry to close its plant in Rotherham, with the loss of 290 jobs
Bradford-based conveyancing firm Hammonds Support Systems to cut 200 jobs after going into administration
Loan firm Cattles to cut 400 jobs in Hull, predominantly at two call centres
Leeds-based electrical goods retailer Empire Direct lays off 90 store and head office workers in Yorkshire, and 68 more staff at shops across England. A further 192 staff, mostly in Yorkshire, are working with administrators but face redundancy
Burberry to close its plant in Rotherham, with the loss of 290 jobs
Food firm Tulip in consultation over closure of site in Linton, Cambridgeshire, where 87 workers face redundancy, and factory in Thetford, Norfolk, where a further 78 jobs are under threat
Sanyo to close television manufacturing plant in Lowestoft, Suffolk, by the end of February, with the loss of 60 jobs
Caravan maker Fleetwood Caravans, in Long Melford, Suffolk, cuts 50 jobs and enters administration, with 13 more workers fearing redundancy
Food firm Tulip in consultation over closure of site in Linton, Cambridgeshire, where 87 workers face redundancy, and factory in Thetford, Norfolk, where a further 78 jobs are under threat
Sanyo to close television manufacturing plant in Lowestoft, Suffolk, by the end of February, with the loss of 60 jobs
Caravan maker Fleetwood Caravans, in Long Melford, Suffolk, cuts 50 jobs and enters administration, with 13 more workers fearing redundancy
