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Post office closure plans ‘a death of a thousand cuts’
10:39am Tue 18 Mar 08
RESIDENTS have pledged to fight to keep their local post office, which is threatened with closure even though it had to take on extra staff to deal with customer demand.
Residents take protest to Parliament
10:40am Tue 18 Mar 08
CAMPAIGNERS have sent a 3,000-name petition to Parliament in a bid to prevent their local post office from closing.
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