A spokesman for Allied Carpets in Gillingham confirmed the store will not close.

It comes as nine stores in the county have been shut down after administrators failed to find a buyer.

Nationally, more than 850 jobs have been cut at the failed homeware firm.

In Kent, the stores affected are in Ashford, Bromley, Canterbury, Dartford, Folkestone, Maidstone, Margate, Orpington and Tunbridge Wells.

Administrators said they had been forced to close 142 stores because they have been unable to sell on the bulk of the flooring firm's branches.

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