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Post Offices, and now shops, face bully-boy tactics Print E-mail
Monday, 17 March 2008

Heroes like Win Morgan in Llangadog will fight to maintain their shop and Post Office On Monday 17th March 2008 The Daily Telegraph published a story "1000 village shops may close with post offices ", reporting that the shops are "facing the threat of closure over 'draconian rules' that will ban them from offering rival postal services after their own Post Office sections are shut down.... About half of the 2,500 post offices earmarked for closure double as local shops". 

Read on to sign the Federation of Small Businesses' petition to save our shops.....

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Save your Post Office - this website will help Print E-mail
Monday, 10 March 2008
Image Several communities currently fighting to save their Post Offices have launched a website giving hints and tips to similarly determined communities under the umbrella of Communities Against Post Office Closures (CAPOC).
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Post Office politics Print E-mail
Thursday, 28 February 2008

Wiltshire Conservative MP Dr Andrew Murrison backs his Post Offices - like this one in East Knoyle Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart comments on the news that many Government Ministers and Labour MPs are campaigning against Post Offices being shut down in their constituencies, whilst their Government continues to support a programme of closures.

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Letter from Simon Hart Print E-mail
Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Image The folllowing letter has been published in the Leamington Spa Courier :

Northern Rock... or post office network?

I note that the Government is committed to spending £110 billion, £3,500 for each of us, to keep Northern Rock, a bank with two million customers afloat.

It is not, however, willing to contemplate £5 from each taxpayer to support a Post Office network with 11.4 million customers. - Simon Hart, Chief Executive, Countryside Alliance, Kennington Road, London.

 
Campaign for your threatened Post Office Print E-mail
Thursday, 31 January 2008

Image If your Post Office is under threat and you want to help to save it, then please contact the Countryside Alliance. We are co-ordinating help for communities who are fighting the closures and you can get involved by contacting Sarah Lee at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Labour has a lot to learn about education Print E-mail
Thursday, 31 January 2008

Image Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart comments on the latest assault on the countryside: Reports that 219 schools with fewer than 100 pupils have shut since 1997 have left us inundated by requests from members asking for help to save their threatened local schools as the axe looms over many, many more.......

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Fighting for our Post Offices Print E-mail
Tuesday, 06 November 2007
Image The Post Office is embroiled in a rolling consultation programme with a view to closing 2,500 branches across Britain.  Learn more about live consultations here. Regional lists of earmarked branches are being unveiled on a rolling basis between now and summer 2008.
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