The Post Office is being really inflexible and insisting on closing a small branch post office on Albany Street, NW1. The post office, based in a popular local pharmacy, serves the Regent's Park estate. The reason? The sub postmaster can't afford to open for just 4 hours on Saturdays any more. Because it is too costly to open on Saturdays, the Post Office have taken the decision to termi...

Green-controlled Stroud Town Council is celebrating an against-the-odds victory, after sealing a deal to reopen a post office closed under the government's Network Change programme. Stroud is the first authority to intervene successfully to rescue a stand-alone post office, and only the second to save any post office counter. Meanwhile, around 2,500 other branches are expected to have been lo...

The Nicolson Street Post Office will now close (as a Post Office - it will remain as a chemist) on 30th January 2009. Alas, the campaign to save it did not ultimately succeed.

Kevin Maguire reports, in a rare example of an amusing anecdote in his New Statesman diary, reveals that Frank Dobson is a fan of climate change... That a tax-free windfall on an ill-judged house dodge jeopardises the cabinet highchair of Little Labour's Hazel Blears is a cause of grave disappointment for one of Mrs Pepperpot's comrades. "I always thought," mused Frank Dobson, "that risi...

Lord Mandelson is urging the prime minister to save the Post Office network by allowing it to provide government services and financial products, according to a leaked letter seen by the Guardian. Mandelson suggests that the current economic downturn and "recent events in the financial services" present an opportunity for the Post Office to take on a new range of tasks. In the letter to Gordon Bro...

Labour AM Ann Jones has congratulated Henllan Post Office for its successful application to the new Post Office Diversification Fund. The Post Office is one of the first to be awarded part of a new £4.5m fund to help sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses diversify and improve their facility. The fund, which will run for three years and is open to every sub post office in Wales, aims to help...

A PUBLIC meeting to discuss the future of Warrender Park Road Post Office will be held tomorrow.

I have been pressing Camden Council to step in and prevent the closure of Albany Street Post Office, also in today's Daily Mirror "Mandy Post Office Shuts." Here's the letter I wrote to the Lib Dem/Tory leadership, normally very active on Post Office issues in the borough, to ask if our lawyers could step in to injuct the Post Office Ltd not to close until a suitable replacement was foun...

Sheffield Attercliffe MP Clive Betts has demanded a high-level meeting with Post Office managers in London following the temporary closure of Tinsley Post Office. Clive Betts said: "I have been in correspondence with the Post Office over many months about the problems of Tinsley Post Office, its very difficult location and the requests by the sub-postmaster for assistance in moving to more appropr...

Just spotted on the Shettleston Road in Glasgow East, none other than Frank Dobson. I think I ought to start a new Top Ten List...You Know You're Getting Desperate When...10. You draft Frank Dobson in to persuade people to vote Labour in a Glasgow council estate.Do continue it...