UNCERTAINTY continues to surround the short term future of BHS's Bolton store — as shopping centre bosses say they are working to find new tenants at the site.

Jobs are set to be lost at the Crompton Place store in Victoria Square premises after the chain store went into liquidation.

About 11,000 jobs across the country are due to go, but administrators could not confirm the number affected in Bolton.

All of BHS's 164 stores across the country are to close, but will remain open until remaining stock is sold.

It is thought this process could take up to eight weeks to complete.

A spokesman for LaSalle Investment Management, which manages Crompton Place, previously said: "Following the BHS announcement this week, we are looking at a variety of options to ensure that we maintain the quality of the retail offer in our centres.

"We are currently working through the different scenarios to achieve a long term solution for all involved."

A spokesman for the shopping centre said there is currently no more information about the short term future of the shop.

It comes as the demise of the company is investigated by the House of Commons' Business and Pensions Committee, which called the man who bought BHS for £1 from Sir Philip Green last year as a witness.

During the hearing, Dominic Chappell was described as a "premier league liar" who had his "fingers in the till" by former BHS finance consultant Michael Hitchcock.

Mr Hitchcock said: "I question his intelligence, he wasn't a retailer. The motive was purely for his own benefit. There is a big smell test which I adopt in a lot of these situations, and it just did not smell right."

The chain's chief executive Darren Topp also alleged that Mr Chappell threatened to kill him when he questioned him over a £1.5 million transfer of BHS money to Sweden.

In his submissions to the committee, Mr Chappell claimed BHS would have been "saveable", had Sir Philip assisted the firm.

Mr Chappell said: "I think our company was saveable and I think, had Sir Philip had assisted us, we could have saved BHS. We were in the throes of beginning a turnaround proper after a very successful property CVA and we were moving forward."