ANGRY residents are hoping that a post office will be opened in their village following the loss of the service during the summer.

A Heighington parish councillor has agreed to have talks with Post Offices Limited in an effort to provide a post office in the village hall.

Councillor Gerald Lee will meet representatives from Post Offices Limited to look into the viability of providing a post office in a room at the village hall.

"We have to look at the implications, the viability of doing it," he said.

"We need to see that the village hall association is happy about it, see what, if any, modifications are needed in the room, with regards security, how we will staff it, and so on, but the lady at the post office seems quite positive about it."

Former postmaster Bob Wilson closed Heighington post office in July after electronic pensions payments made the business unviable.

A spokesman for Post Offices Limited, said: "We are currently exploring options to get a post office branch reopened in the village with the parish council, and we will be meeting them very soon to discuss this."

Robert Kelso, 77, who lives in the village, was angry at the closure of the post office, but he was incensed to find the post box on the former post office had been removed last Friday, and no replacement provided.

It means he and his disabled wife, Joan, 69, have to walk a mile to a post box on a new estate at the other end of the village.

A spokesman for Post Offices Limited said the box had to be removed as it was on property belonging to former postmaster Mr Wilson, but they were looking for an alternative site, and apologised for the inconvenience.