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nick watson | 25.05.2004 09:44 | Liverpool

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City Post Offices Facing the Axe

11 post offices are to close and six more could join them. One of the "most impressive" post offices in the North West is to be closed as part of a restructuring plan. The Lyceum Post Office, in Liverpool city centre, is to be shut along with 10 sub-post offices in the city. The Post Office said the Lyceum was not viable and the list could be extended to six other sub-post offices. The sub-post office closures are part of a national reorganisation to "ensure the viability" of those that remain.

'Not viable'

Those closing are: Town Row, Stoneycroft and Lower Breck Road in West Derby; Window Lane, Gateacre; Cressington Road in Garston; Derby Lane and Picton Road in Wavertree; Knotty Ash and Aintree post office in Warbeck Moor.

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2004/03/287402.html

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Legal action against the proposed closure of 29 local Post Office branches is being considered by Birmingham City Council.

A six-week consultation exercise concerning the closures is due to end on Wednesday. The council has suggested it will seek a judicial review if the Post Office presses ahead with its plans. But a spokesman for the Post Office said a legal challenge would be likely to fail.

Government policy

Council leader Albert Bore said: "Cabinet were unanimous in their opposition to the proposals. We agreed that we would take whatever measures we can to get these plans dropped, even if that means taking our case to the High Court." The cabinet's views and objections were also being forwarded to the Trade and Industry Select Committee, which is carrying out an inquiry into the proposals for the branches in the south of Birmingham.

A spokesman for the Post Office said the organisation was implementing government policy. "I can't believe there are any grounds for a judicial review of the processes we have taken. We are implementing government policy, supported by government funding. There is no legal recourse available to the public if the Post Office decides to close a branch."

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3604691.stm

nick watson

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