Hands Off Our Post Offices
The ET launched its campaign in March 2008 as news of proposed closures across the region was confirmed.
The ET launched its campaign in March 2008 as news of proposed closures across the region was confirmed.Timeline of articles published online linked with the campaign:
18 September:
Closed post offices to be replaced by mobile vans
Mobile postal services operating from roadside laybys are to replace axed post offices in some villages near Peterborough.
17 September:
Video: Axe falls on all but one condemned post office
Joy as West Town saved but six others face axe.
15 August:
Post office closure petition delivered to 10 Downing Street
Petition with 2,000 signatures delivered to Downing Street by MPs Shailesh Vara and Stewart Jackson, leader of the city council John Peach and the ET's editor Mark Edwards.
12 August:
ET takes Post Office protest to Downing Street
The Hands off our Post Offices campaign, launched by the ET, has already attracted close to 2,000 signatures.
Great Gidding post office campaigners highlight travel problems.
Great Gidding residents cycle, ride a horse and run the 10 mile round-trip to Sawtry, the nearest branch to them if their branch closes, to demonstrate the loss the closure will have on their community.
Woodston protesters hit the streets.
14 July:
Threatened post office is 'community's heart'
Deena Howard, from Ramsey St Mary's post office, signed the petition in a bid to save her shop, which is at the "heart of the community", and received a visit from Shailesh Vara, MP for North West Cambridgeshire. Tara Dundon
10 July:
Chance to voice your post office concerns
PUT pen to paper and make your concern count.
9 July:
Post Office planning to soften blow of closures
Officials claim the closure of city branches in Woodston, New England and West Town will leave customers no more than a mile away from their nearest alternative branch.
Your comments: Regular users shocked their branch may be shut
List of under-threat post offices in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire
Post Office Ltd announces that 26 branches in Cambridgeshire are to be closed, including Holme, Great Gidding, Ramsey St Mary, St Peter's Road, March, West Town and Woodston.
8 July:
Revealed: City post offices facing the axe - now have your say
A seven-week consultation began today on cost-cutting plans to shut post offices in Peterborough along with 23 others across Cambridgeshire.
2 May:
Under threat post office is 'cornerstone of village'
Great Gidding post office, near Sawtry, is one of dozens of branches facing an uncertain future, Shailesh Vara visited sub-postmaster Jed Patel to offer his support.
10 April:
Date for closure fails to deter protesters
The branch at Barnwell, near Oundle, was earmarked for closure in January this year, and residents have been told it will close in October.
7 April:
MP delivers message of support
North West Cambridgeshire MP Shailesh Vara visited the village post office in Farcet, near Peterborough, one of the dozens of branches facing an uncertain future in the city area.
2 April:
Petition to back ET Post Office campaign
Closing post offices in the region would have a devastating impact on the city's pensioners – a watchdog report has confirmed.
31 March:
Staff speak up for post offices
Angela Hurcombe, whose post office in King's Cliffe was saved in an earlier round of cuts, has pledged her support for other branches facing uncertainty.
28 March:
Hands Off Our Post Office campaign launched by The Evening Telegraph after Government announces 250 branches to be closed in the East of England, including up to 30 in Cambridgeshire.
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