Article: Post office closure to 'rip out the heart' of village As news of wholesale post office closures across Derbyshire hit home yesterday, residents prepared to fight to keep their facilities. But postmasters were generally tight-lipped on having to shut up shop. Shirley Brooks reports.

As news of wholesale post office closures across Derbyshire hit home yesterday, residents prepared to fight to keep their facilities. But postmasters were generally tight-lipped on having to shut up shop. Shirley Brooks reports.

Shocked villagers in Egginton fear that the closure of their post office will mean "the death of village life".

And they are prepared to fight to preserve it.

They were due to meet South Derbyshire MP Mark Todd today at the branch, in Church Road, which has been listed among 35 Derbyshire post offices in danger of facing the axe.

The proposed closure, which would see villagers in Egginton having to travel to neighbouring Willington or Etwall, is part of ...

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