DVD rental chain Blockbuster been placed in administration putting more than 4000 jobs at risk across the country.

The company, which has 528 stores across the UK, has called in the administrators just days after HMV and Jessops also collapsed.

Blockbuster has stores all over south Essex including Basildon, Billericay, Pitsea, Leigh, Rayleigh, Westcliff and Canvey.

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