Brown Presented with Derby Post Office Petitions (Derby City Liberal Democrats)

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Brown Presented with Derby Post Office Petitions

March 12, 2008 12:00 AM

Liberal Democrat campaigners hand the petitions into number 10 Downing Street

Liberal Democrats are leading the campaign against the Labour government's Post Office closures

Almost a thousand signatures from Derby people opposing Post Office closures have been handed in to Gordon Brown.

The Liberal Democrats have presented a petition of over 50,000 signatures from across Britain to 10 Downing Street calling on Gordon Brown to reverse his Government's savage Post Office closure programme.

Almost a thousand of the signatures were collected in Derby as part of the campaign led by Derby Liberal Democrat Cllr Lucy Care.

Cllr Care said "We have lost another six Derby Post Offices. This is on top of the sixteen that were closed a few years ago.

"Residents in Chaddesden still have an agonising wait to see if the threatened Post Office on Nottingham Road is going to be saved or if it too is to be closed.

"I hope the government will listen to this huge opposition to Post Office closures, because this mania for closing Post Offices must end."

Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, Liberal Democrat Post Office Spokesperson Sarah Teather MP said: "Gordon Brown and Labour need to listen to the people who have signed this petition. Post office closures mean that many, often the most vulnerable, are denied access to post office services or face long journeys and even longer queues in other post offices."

"Post office closures lead to the loss of other local shops and businesses, ripping the heart out of local communities."

"Once again the Labour Government is cutting local services for short-term savings while ignoring the long term damage they cause. This is no way to run a country.

"The Liberal Democrats are the only party with a plan to protect and improve Britain's Post Office network."