Max Poynton, co-founder of the doughnut company Project D, was part of the team that closed the store in Parliament Street, just six months after it opened.
The doughnut company began in 2018 with a mission to create the world’s ‘best doughnut’.
All doughnuts are made at the company's 11,000 sq ft bakery near Derby - which can produce 17 million doughnuts a year for stores nationwide.
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