A national card and gift shop chain has closed the doors to its Leamington Spa store.

Clintons cards had a closing down sale at its Royal Priors shop over the past few days before closing for the final time on Sunday 13 April.

Huge discounts were available in the run up to the closure.

The chain was last year bought by family-owned company Cardzone, which has since closed 38 Clintons stores in the last year.

In a statement to the Daily Express, Clintons said: "The company has continued to close loss-making stores and the portfolio of retail stores is now down to approximately 170 stores.

"The high street continues to be unpredictable and the company is seeing reduced footfall in the stores year on year. The company continues to monitor the performance of the existing estate and to close the poor performing stores, which, whilst impacting on turnover, should improve profitability moving forwards."

Clintons has been approached for comment.