We are backing a campaign to keep Newton Hall Post Office in its current location because proposals have been put forward which would see it move to McColls and lose many of its services as well as a serious risk to capacity.

The Post Office should in our opinion keep the existing site and invest in it to provide disability access and modernisation. It would be open on Saturday afternoons and potentially two evenings a week. The McColls despite comments that it would be open longer hours, would have limited services during these hours and some services would not be offered at all. We are working on making it easy for residents to sign a petition which currently has 700 names but has had to be removed from the post office.

Link to Northern Echo website: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northdurham/11404498.Fighting_to_save_Newton_Hall_post_office/

We have secured a meeting with senior Post Office management next week to put across the views of the local community, and I will add a full list of all our concerns to this website tomorrow, hopefully along with links and downloads to the petition.