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Benefit claimants like link with local post office, trial finds

Aug 25 2009 by David Williamson, South Wales Echo A SCHEME to let people claiming some benefits to report personal changes at their local post office has won the backing of users after a trial in Cardiff. Some 43% of people...

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Wait continues for post office revamp

A MUCH-NEEDED revamp of Weston's central post office will still go ahead despite a six-month delay, operators say. Primeco announced it would give the store in Regent Street a complete refit after buying it from Nearby Stores...

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Opening of PO in hotel is delayed

Residents will have to wait until the end of the month before a lifeline service which closed in their Shropshire village reopens, it was announced today. Wroxeter Post Office was originally due to open on August 3 at Wroxeter...

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Village faces post office closure

A Leicestershire community has been left in confusion after its post office closed with just four days notice. Staff and customers of the Anstey branch said were they only told on Friday it would close after Monday. Post Office...

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Arrest warrant issued for crash drink-driver

Aug 6 2009 by Matt Nicholls, Port Talbot Guardian A FORMER sub-postmaster crashed his car into a set of roadside railings – then tried to blame a friend. Athar Chaudhri was more than twice the drink-drive limit at the time of...

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‘Free’ service costs £2,000

A postmistress is facing a bill of more than £2,000 after a Post Office blunder over a free-to-use cash machine. For more than two years, Colleen Ingham has offered the cash machine service at her branch in Cockfield. But the...

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Tender: London: drinking water

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Address: Organisation: Royal Mail Group Ltd, 35-50 Rathbone Place, 1st Floor Internet address(es): General address of the contracting authority:...

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Business rates rise will hurt London's high streets

As the Government proposes that business rates should rise by an average of 10 per cent, before inflation, over the next five years, Darren Johnson is calling on the London Mayor to lobby the government to issue automatic...

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Fears PO service is lost for good

A building which housed a Shrewsbury post office could soon be let as a shop specialising in Polish foods as fears for the future of the branch continued to grow with nobody applying to run it 10 months after it closed.

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West Cumbrian post office shuts after audit

NETHERTON Post Office in Maryport has closed following an audit this week. A Post Office Ltd spokesman said that the branch would reopen as soon as possible but he could not give any timescale. He said he could only add that...

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