Villagers turned out to a Village Hall meeting in Thriplow last night and voted unanimously to fight to save their Post Office.
We planned how to ensure that the arguments for shut-down would be scrutinised and challenged, and we agreed a campaign to mobilize people. The Parish Council and the Stores Association are united in this, and we had help and advice from people experienced in fighting other proposed closures. The Post Office Ltd publishes its material next Tuesday, and then we kick off. I spoke to the local papers gearing them up for next week.
There is no doubt that this represent a threat to the shop as well as the Post Office, the one being dependant on the other. The government says it supports sustainable communities, but here in south cambridgeshire, what we see is the government eroding communities: first Hanley Grange, now the threat to close a Post Office in a village where it would take you a day to travel by bus to the nearest village with a Post Office!
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