UK retailers Toys R Us and Maplin have collapsed into administration, putting 5,500 jobs at risk.

Toys R Us UK has appointed Moorfields Advisory as administrator to wind down the company's stores, with the collapse putting 3,000 jobs at risk, while PwC is set to handle Maplin which employs 2,500 people, after sale talks with Edinburgh Woollen Mill collapsed.

Simon Thomas, joint administrator of Toys R Us at Moorfields, said the firm would be "conducting an orderly wind-down of the store portfolio over the coming weeks."