A SUPERMARKET in Barrow is offering its cafe for Christmas parties.

Morrisons is opening its café to Christmas party groups to offer three-course meals including prawn cocktail starters, British turkey and all the trimmings and traditional Christmas pudding and custard.

The supermarket said its Christmas Meal Deal had been created in response to research which showed that 70 per cent of UK workers expect cut backs to their work parties this Christmas because of tough trading conditions, economic uncertainty and fragile confidence.

One in twenty expect it to be cancelled all together.

Tables for up to 20 can be booked at the The Strand store for between November 25 and December 23.

Helen Tordoff, head of cafes at Morrisons, said: “Some small businesses have had a tough year."