CRICKET goods retailer Romida Sports has ceased trading after being put into administration

Buyers are now being sought for the Rochdale-based business, which employs 10 people and has a store at Wakefield Road, Brighouse as well as outlets at Liverpool and Leatherhead, Surrey.

The company, which has traded for more than 30  years, sponsors the Sykes Cup and the  Drake’s League Twenty20 competition.

A spokesman for administrators PKF blamed the impact of the rain-sodden summer on the cricket season and consumers focusing on the Olympics and other sports for the firm's demise.

Full story in Saturday's Examiner.