News story

12th August 2004

Local MP Launches Campaign to Save 2 Local Post Offices Faced with Closure

Northavon MP Steve Webb has today launched a campaign to save two local post offices threatened with closure. Under plans announced by the Post Office, Frampton Cotterell Post Office in Church Road, Frampton Cotterell, and Hambrook Post Office in Filton Road, Hambrook are set to close. A short period of public consultation has now been started, and Steve Webb MP has immediately launched a campaign to save the post offices. He has set up a campaign website, www.SaveOurPostOffices.com, which gives details of how local people can fight the closures, and local supporters will be delivering leaflets containing a petition to households in the villages affected. The MP is urging people to write at once to the Chief Executive of the Post Office, David Mills, to show the strength of local feeling.

Steve Webb said:

"Post Offices are a vital part of many local communities, and are especially important to older people and to families. If we want to keep our local post offices it is vital that as many people as possible register their protest as soon as possible. I blame the Government for hastening the decline of the post office network by pressurising people  into giving up their pension books. I believe that local post offices could have a bright future and we need to make sure that they are kept open".

Frampton Cotterell councillor Dave Hockey added:

"Post Offices help to give a village its character. I know that Frampton Cotterell Post Office is greatly valued and I would be very concerned to see it close. I hope that as many local residents as possible will back Steve Webb's campaign to save our post offices".