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Post office plan hits the buffers

Coun Keith Aspden outside the closed Fulford Post Office

10:32am Monday 9th June 2008

POST office bosses are refusing to help City of York Council reopen axed branches - because they say it will damage their remaining businesses.

Axed post office to carry on serving

FLASHBACK: Tollerton Postmaster Phil Lancaster with a group of his customers who have each written a letter to the Post Office's network development office protesting at the closure of Tollerton Post Office

9:58am Thursday 5th June 2008

A POST office whose card was marked as part of the massive network cull to cut costs has made a deal with another branch to stay open.

Decision due on Micklegate Post Office

8:12am Friday 2nd May 2008

THE fate of a vital post office in the heart of York was set to be revealed today.

Outrage after important community service closes its doors for last time

12:02pm Saturday 26th April 2008

THE last post has sounded for another vital community service in York.

Axed post office will close early

11:57am Wednesday 23rd April 2008

THE closure of a York post office has been brought forward by two weeks to this Friday due to "logistical constraints".

'Hands off Post Offices' plea

4:45am Tuesday 22nd April 2008

Updated 8.45am POST offices earmarked for closure in York should be left intact, while councillors investigate taking them over, a local politician argued today.

Mail boss to decide on fate of York post office

FLASHBACK: Councillors Sandy Fraser and Julie Gunnell muster support during the fight for Micklegate Post Office

12:04pm Sunday 13th April 2008

THOUSANDS of people have campaigned to save it. Now the fate of a vital post office in the heart of York rests with just one man - Royal Mail's top boss.

Council bosses asked to save Post Offices

Coun John Galvin

1:17am Saturday 5th April 2008

Updated:9:38 Bosses at York council are being asked to consider taking over the running of four city post offices in a bid to save them.

MP’s post office plea to minister

Paul Abbott, owner of Micklegate Post Office, the future of which remains uncertain

10:36am Thursday 3rd April 2008

YORK'S MP has called for a meeting to establish why a consultation over the future of a city post office has taken nearly two months more than it should.

Haxby Road Post Office opens its doors for the last time

City of York Councillor Ken King, right, presents a cake, marking 18 years of service, at Haxby Road Post Office, to Ghulam Rabbani, centre, watched by family, well-wishers and fellow ward councillors David Scott and Helen Douglas

4:39am Tuesday 1st April 2008

Updated 9.52am: ANOTHER post office counter in York has shut for the final time, as the national branch closure programme continues.

Post Office admits blunder over closure

Coun Keith Aspden, right, discusses the post office closures at Fulford post office with, from left, Harrogate MP Phil Willis, the Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate for York Outer, Madeline Kirk, and postmaster Aasif Rabbani

10:15am Wednesday 20th February 2008

Updated: MAIL bosses have finally admitted botching their research at a doomed York post office – but say the mistake is not important.

MP calls for review over post office closure blunders

11:28am Thursday 14th February 2008

Updated: CAMPAIGNERS have called on the city council to consider legal action against Post Office bosses over their decision to close a York branch.

Post office 'must stay'

Sub-postmaster Paul Abbott outside Micklegate Post Office in York

12:30pm Wednesday 13th February 2008

A POST office in York that could be axed today received fresh backing from local councillors, who vowed to continue their campaign to save the branch.

Campaigners hit out over closure

8:19am Tuesday 12th February 2008

CAMPAIGNERS have hit out over the closure of a York post office, after it emerged mail bosses botched their research.

Last post for closure plea

Owner Paul Abbot, who has decided to end the campaign against its closure

10:02am Monday 11th February 2008

THE owner of a York post office today revealed it would cease its campaign to avoid closure - because of parking restrictions.

Post Office Ltd announce closures

10:24am Friday 8th February 2008

Updated 10.45am: DOZENS of post offices in York and North and East Yorkshire are to close.

Grim day for post offices

Ian Hughes, sub-postmaster at Terrington post office, said: "This is an assault on the rural community"

10:01am Friday 8th February 2008

TENS of thousands of people throughout our region will today find out whether their local post office is to close.(See video clip)

MP blasts ‘Post Office PR stunt’

10:20am Thursday 7th February 2008

THE MP for East Yorkshire has expressed his outrage following cutbacks to the post office network in the county.

City MP blasts postal chiefs

Tollerton Postmaster Phil Lancaster with a group of his customers who were opposed to the closure of the village post office

12:11pm Wednesday 6th February 2008

YORK'S MP has gone to war in Westminster with mail chiefs over their decision to swing an axe through North Yorkshire's post office network.

First to fall to the post office axe

The Leemings outside Hawnby Post Office

10:24am Tuesday 5th February 2008

THE first confirmed casualty in the slashing of the post office network in North Yorkshire has been announced.


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