Here's the Ministry of Justice news release announcing the closure, under the wonderfully euphemistic headline "Changes to prison capacity announced".
Many of those who deliver legal aid services would lose their jobs as law centres and firms offering free advice would face closure under the measures.
Holloway will be the first closure under the scheme, which will see the prison sites sold off to build some 3,000 new homes.
BBC 6 Music, the digital station threatened with closure under cost-saving plans, celebrated a spectacular turnaround after winning the top prize, for UK Station of the Year.
The children's heart surgery unit at the hospital was earmarked for closure under NHS plans taken last July aimed at streamlining services which would have seen operations being carried out at fewer and more specialised centres.
Today, the number of former Pripyat residents in Slavutych has dwindled to fewer than one in three, but thousands are still to this day employed at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, despite its closure under European Union pressure in 2000.
The gap in "school readiness" between the child from a wealthy family and one from a disadvantaged family is widely acknowledged and was a key driver behind the Sure Start centres now facing closure under the coalition's programme of cuts.
The Swedish company faced closure under its troubled former owner, General Motors GMM) of the US last year, but was saved when Dutch-based Spyker Cars stepped in to buy it and renamed the new combined group.
More than 10 per cent of Chicago's elementary schools are facing closure under plans to tackle the city's $1bn education budget deficit – the largest mass shutdown of public schools in the United States in recent memory.
BBC 6 Music, the digital station threatened with closure under corporation cost-saving plans, celebrated a spectacular turnaround after winning the top prize, for UK Station of the Year.
The wound was lavaged prior to closure under drains.
