Article: Post office to close at Easter.

THE axe has fallen on Marine Post Office and, despite an appeal to keep it open, it will close at Easter.

In November, the branch in South Marine Drive was earmarked for closure following a consultation period and on Monday shop owner Lisa Castleton was told it would definitely shut.

Staff had organised a petition, collecting 3,000 signatures, and MP Greg Knight gave his support, but it made no difference.

Mrs Castleton is going to keep on running the shop but she fears she will lose some of her trade.

There has been a post office on the south side of town since the 1940s and Mrs Castleton said, as far as she knows, a shop as always ...

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