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Post Office delivers a fatal blow

Sonia and Darren Leeming at their Hawnby sub-post office

11:41am Wednesday 6th February 2008

HOPES of saving the 12 sub post offices in Ryedale from closure have been dashed this week as one village shop is told to close its counter, and the rest were expected to hear the worst.

Ryedale post office closures attracts blunt condemnation

Gazette & Herald reporter Lynn Brown presents the petition against the proposed post office closures to Nick Turner of Post Office Ltd

1:09pm Wednesday 16th January 2008

POST OFFICE bosses planning to close a string of sub-post offices in Ryedale received a blunt message at a packed public meeting at Ryedale House: "Go back and think again!"

Villagers express 'disgust' at closure of post offices

10:03am Thursday 20th December 2007

VILLAGERS whose post offices are threatened with closure next spring are mounting petition campaigns and writing protest letters as part of the Gazette & Herald's campaign.

‘Closures are an abuse of our rural communities’

Darren and Sonia Leeming at Hawnby

9:14am Thursday 13th December 2007

HUNDREDS of readers have joined the Gazette & Herald Counteraction campaign by signing the petition to stop the proposed closure of sub-post offices across Ryedale.

Post office boss in talks over closures

Slingsby sub-postmaster Tony Hodgson

11:34am Thursday 6th December 2007

A TOP Post Office boss is to meet councillors tonight (Thursday) for talks on the closure of more than 20 sub post-offices in North Yorkshire - 12 of them in Ryedale.

HANDS OFF!

Patricia Hands outside the post office in Church Street, Norton, which is one of those earmarked for closure

1:00pm Wednesday 28th November 2007

Protest as 12 sub-post offices earmarked for the axe.

Anger and disbelief as axe falls on village post offices

Darren and Sonia Leeming in their post office at Hawnby

12:56pm Wednesday 28th November 2007

ANGRY sub-postmasters hit back at plans to close their businesses next spring, as town and parish councils set about studying the impact on their communities.

Branches at risk

12:55pm Wednesday 28th November 2007

FIFTY branches across North and East Yorkshire have been identified on the Post Office closure list.

Post Offices in despair

12:51pm Wednesday 28th November 2007

IAN and Kate Hughes, who run the post office at Terrington, bravely decided to carry on their business in the heart of the village community following a frightening robbery.


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