Discount retailer Poundland hopes to create up to 650 jobs with a new distribution centre in Harlow.

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Iceland and Poundland have taken 7% each, with 99p Stores taking 6%, said LDC, which tracks the retail sector.

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Cait Reilly, 24, claimed that requiring her to work for nothing at a Poundland store breached laws on forced labour.

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Poundland said it would be submitting a planning application in due course.

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Miss Reilly said that in November 2011 she had to leave her voluntary work at a local museum and work unpaid at the Poundland store in Kings Heath, Birmingham, under a scheme known as the "sector-based work academy".

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She also argued that unemployed people were being "forced into such alleged 'educational' roles as stacking for Poundland for not just low wages, but no wages at all", while the public was "increasingly saying 'no more' to the demonisation of benefit recipients".

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