(SkyNews) -Around 1,300 jobs are at risk as the chef's restaurants business becomes a casualty of the casual dining crisis, Sky News learns.

Well over 1,000 jobs are at risk as the restaurant chain set up by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver crashes into administration just two years after narrowly averting an earlier collapse.

Sky News has learnt that Mr Oliver's Jamie's Italian chain and his other venues have lined up KPMG to handle an insolvency process.