Leeds shopfitting and joinery specialist Wood-Mitchell Building Group has been placed in administration.

Most of the 70 staff at the £12m turnover firm have been laid off by administrators from Deloitte.

The administrators are now in the process of shutting the business down, which traces it history back to 1896.

Wood-Mitchell serviced a variety of regional and national clients across a range of sectors, from museums, offices and shops.

Deloitte’s Leeds office aims to run the business with a skeleton staff to complete some outstanding contracts and will put the firm’s freehold property in Lowtown, Pudsey up for sale.