AN ICONIC toy retailer is making a grand return with a store less than 40 minutes away from Worcester.

Toys R Us is returning to the UK after 75 stores across the UK closed their doors in April 2018, with a store coming to Cheltenham's High Street.

A date for the opening has yet to be confirmed, but Cheltenham is featured on a list of nine locations where the retailer is returning to.

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The first store in the UK to reopen is in a WHSmiths store in Monks Cross, York, on Saturday, June 10. 

Solihull is another location less than an hour away from Worcester which will be getting a store.

Also on the list of locations where Toys R US will be reopening stores was Oxford, Reading, Poole, Canterbury, Chelmsford and Cwmbran.

When the retailer went into administration in 2018, 2054 employees were set to be made redundant.