Food producer Premier Foods is looking to take on 40 more staff, with the jobs to be located in four distribution centres across the Fen town.

Many of the positions will be based at their largest centre, in Lynn Road.

The news comes just a couple of months after the firm, which employs 1,400 people locally, announced it was looking for 20 staff to fill key roles.

The latest recruitment drive will seek to fill a number of different positions available, including shift managers, yard controllers and forklift truck operators.

A spokesman for Premier Foods – which is one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, and includes household name brands, such as Branston, OXO, Mr Kipling and Hovis – said that the new recruitment drive came as a result of the company's expansion in recent months, and a relaunch of one of the most well-known brands in the country.

"The recruitment comes as a result of increasing work following Premier Foods' purchase of RHM and Campbells last year," the spokesman said.

The jobs news has been released just a month after it was announced that a new state-of-the-art entertainment complex was being built in the town.

The new complex, which will include a cinema, will create up to 200 jobs when it opens in the autumn next year.

Today, John Bridge, from the Fenland Chamber of Commerce, said that the latest jobs boost was welcome for both Wisbech and the surrrounding area.

He said: "The key thing is that Wisbech is investing in making it an attractive place for people to want to come and do business.

"A lot of time and effort has been applied by those involved to make the economic conditions in the whole area as positive as possible, and more and more businesses are seeing the potential of investing here.

"All that work is now coming to fruition with these announcements, which can only be good Wisbech."

Anyone interested in applying for the jobs should call Leslie Heslop on 01945 468352 for an application pack.