Post office faces axe despite winning awards

Yorkshire Post;  September 5, 2008 ;     501 words ......country.Mrs Grainger's post office is in the tiny village...have won from the Post Office in the last few years...first won best rural post office in the north east in 2003 and then we...shops and without the post office the village will be...the region to ...

Post Office consultation branded a sham

The Scotsman;  July 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ......branches in the North East, Tayside and Fife...campaign, to keep the post office at Glamis, in...Democrat MSP for North East Fife, said: "This...disgrace. The Post Office has clearly ignored...the people in North East Fife. Gordon Brown...will fall THE 40 ...

Our post office is vital for plans to revamp this area; NORTH MP CALLS FOR...

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  November 19, 2008 ;     625 words ......Political Editor MINISTER for the North East Nick Brown is making a last-dit...save a closure-threatened post office in his Tyneside constituency...network development manager, North East, for Post Office Ltd, said: We have considered...Wallsend, has written to the ...

'You can't trust the Post Office' CITY MP'S CLAIM AFTER CITY MAN IS...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 29, 2003 ;     343 words ......senior Coventry MP and the Post Office over a call for a virtual...Ainsworth, MP for Coventry North East and the Labour Party deputy...people's confidence in the Post Office's reputation was severely...labelled irresponsible by Post Office chiefs. Mr Ainsworth ...

Post Office urged to rethink plans.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  July 30, 2008 ;     194 words ...POST Office bosses and ministers have been told to rethink plans after North East MPs said they were 'extremely...plans to close dozens of Post Office branches across the region...benefits contract to the Post Office. The Government is currently...for the replacement of ...

Prove case for closures; Council wants Post Office to open up books.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  August 11, 2008 ;     406 words ...Byline: Dave Black POST Office bosses have been...closing individual North East branches can be...council to the Post Office's controversial...branches across the North East - says it cannot...Morpeth. Branches in North Broomhill and Mitford...to explore with ...

POST OFFICE TRAVEL ROW; Blunder over bus.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  July 17, 2008 ;     274 words ......YOUNG Political Editor POST Office bosses are accused of...catch a bus outside the post office to alternative branches...involves Walkerville Post Office in Shields Road, Newcastle...proposed closure. The Post Office says people can catch the no 22 Stagecoach ...

We will fight for our post office ; More than 500 people have signed a...

Hull Daily Mail (UK);  December 24, 2007 ;     432 words ......of another city post office. Dalsetter Post Office in east Hull's Dalsetter Rise was not originally considered for closure by the Post Office Ltd when it recently consulted on the...Customers are now being told by the Post Office their alternative branches are ...

Post Office cuts 10 more branches.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  May 15, 2004 ;     410 words ......10 post offices in the North East. The post offices in the...after other areas of the North East were hit by post office closures. Post Office Ltd is restructuring its...and Washington East. But post office bosses say that, after...

Thousands join post office fight.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  January 13, 2004 ;     456 words ......to save closure-threatened North East post offices. The Post Office has sparked anger across...Newcastle has now been sent to Post Office bosses. A copy will be officially...by the loss of their local post office and feelings are running...

Government backtracks over Post Office account.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  November 14, 2008 ;     254 words ...NORTH East post offices have been...the Government put the Post Office card account (POCA) out...closure programme. The Post Office card account is a simple...pounds 200m annually to the Post Office with 6.5 million weekly...

Villagers fight for post office.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  October 1, 2004 ;     386 words ......have launched a bid to keep a village post office. The news that the Blackhill branch is...dealer's store next door to Blackhill Post Office, has offered to run it herself ( but Post Office bosses have yet to give her a reply. Derwentside...community in Blackhill which relies on the ...

Profits plea to halt post office closures.(News)

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  June 2, 2004 ;     283 words ...Campaigners against post office closures are urging bosses to put people...to axe another 10 post offices in the North East. Royal Mail's subsidiary, Post Office Ltd, plans to axe 19 post offices on Wearside...announcement came after other areas of the North ...

Post office 'sham' uproar; 80 branches in region axed, Journal told...

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  September 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Sam Wood EIGHTY North East post offices are to close...six-week consultation, by Post Office Limited on the future of 81...official announcement from Post Office Ltd is expected at 10am this...campaigned to save the village's post office. He said last night that ...

Challenge put to post office chiefs "PROVE me wrong!"

Grimsby Telegraph;  October 23, 2007 ;     273 words ......total sham. I feel Post Office bosses pay no attention...look forward to the Post Office revoking its decision...proposals to close Post Office branches throughout North East Lincolnshire are part...protest, said: "This post office cannot be ...