Lib Dem deputy joins protesters 1:09pm Fri 18 Apr 08 A LEADING Parliamentarian has joined dozens of villagers and schoolchildren in a protest against the threatened closure of a South Lakeland post office.

'Your post office needs you' 1:01pm Fri 18 Apr 08 "YOUR Post Office Needs You" is the message being sent out to every household and more than 30 businesses in the Brough area, as the campaign to keep the local branch open steps up.

PO owner blames public apathy

12:56pm Friday 18th April 2008

A SOUTH Lakeland town has lost a post office because not enough people used it.

Protestors take fight to A590 bypass opening

3:21pm Friday 4th April 2008

PROTESTERS opposing the closure of their village post office are planning to demonstrate at the opening of a new £35.3 million bypass.

Post office closure will 'rip heart' out of community 3:10pm Fri 4 Apr 08 THE heart of a picturesque medieval village will be ripped out' if its Victorian post office were to close, say concerned residents.

Closure will be ‘a disaster’

3:07pm Friday 4th April 2008

There was standing room only at Brough Church Hall as village residents met to discuss the impending reduction in services at the village post office.

MP to challenge closures

9:44am Wednesday 2nd April 2008

THE Post Office boss overseeing the proposed axing of 45 sub-post offices in Cumbria will be put on the spot when she visits South Lakeland today (Friday).

PO opening

9:43am Friday 28th March 2008

A NORTH Lancashire town's post office is to open a new branch - bucking the trend of widespread branch closures.

'End of an era...'

12:52pm Friday 21st March 2008

n Continued from Page 1 Margaret Wilson, who has run Cark-in-Cartmel post office from a front room of her home for 20 years, said: "I am very disappointed for myself and for all the villagers. It will be the end of an era in Cark as there has always been a post office here.

Fight doesn't end here

12:49pm Friday 21st March 2008

POLITICIANS in Cumbria are urging communities to keep fighting to save those post offices on the hit list for closure.

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