Post Office comes out fighting over report

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Subscribe Jan 27, 2022 Nicola Adam Associate Editor Good evening, When was the last time you used a Post Office? For some, it remains an essential part of day-to-day life while for others, deprived of local branches and forced to use services online, it will be a fond memory. More than 200 Post Offices have closed in the last two years - the equivalent of two a week, according to new research. Citizens Advice said its study also found that 1,291 Post Offices are currently deemed “temporarily closed”, but more than half of these have been shut for more than two years. One in three rural Post Offices is now offered as a part-time outreach service, open for an average of just five-and-a-half hours a week, said the consumer watchdog. Citizens Advice said people have reported a loss of independence, and increased isolation since their local office was shut. But those at the Post Office don’t agree, accepting some do close, but they are fighting to keep as many open as possible and reopening new ones. What do you think? Do you still rely on your Post Office? Regards, Nicola [email protected] This is where Covid cases are currently highest and still rising in Preston as Plan B restrictions are lifted Limits on care home visitors in Lancashire to be scrapped from next week 'We just want to know why': Vandals smash windows of the Larder cafe in Preston Every window of the Larder cafe in Preston was smashed by vandals, leaving the business with a potential bill of £8k. Meet the NHS worker turned soul and Motown singer who is proving a real hit at new Preston nightspot Meet Matt Philips from Clayton-le-Woods in Chorley - a nurse and social worker by day and Soul and Motown singer by night. The 20 Lancashire place names that people just cannot pronounce correctly Whether it's Euxton, Oswaldtwistle or Heysham, it would appear some Lancashire place names are a mystery to folk not from the county. View more news

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