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Petition update, 04 July 2007

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On 14th December 2006 the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Alistair Darling made an announcement that some 2,500 rural post offices may close by 2009 as they are deemed to be unprofitable. We the undersigned call on the Government to do more to make the network of post office branches viable, by allowing them to further diversify in the field of financial services, and furthermore call on the Prime Minister to recognise the essential role they play in combating both financial and social exclusion, and therefore ask the Prime Minister to commit to offering support to the Post Office in the form of allowing it the commercial freedom to compete in the marketplace.

Current signatories

Jonathan Sheppard, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Julie Sheppard
• Neil Cropper
• Andrew Woodman
• John Williams
• Martin Cox
• Susanne Lamido
• Rob Carruthers
• Dawn Parry
• Stephen Glynn
• Cllr Keith Standring
• David Howard Smith
• John Lees Baxter
• Janice Small
• David Hague
• Clifford Goodman
• Madeleine Willmott
• Stephen Gash
• Julian Nicholson
• Tony Sharp
• S Haylock
• Patricia Sergeant
• John Moss
• Matthew Davis
• closing of the post office
• Annabel Herriott
• Jonathan Boot
• Michael Flower
• Fred Bishop
• Irene Sheppard
• Peregrine Pocock
• Dan Weinberg
• Rebecca Stevens
• Stacey Green
• Jane Archer
• Elizabeth Fison
• Annabel Stevens
• Kerry Hurley
• Robert Buckland
• Harry Legg
• Simon Probert
• Joanne Hurley
• Rachel Roberts
• Stephen Lewis
• John Cole
• Pauline Cole
• Rosanne Goodwins
• David Abbott
• alastair lambert
• George Brown
• David Greenwood
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Nigel Hodges
• Michael Dennis Bamber
• R A Kingscott
• Scot Jenkins
• James Glennie
• Mike Rouse
• Roy Coombs
• VERONICA JORDAN
• Valerie Swan
• Ronald Bell
• Basil Warren
• Chris Hogan
• Sonia Fagan
• Caroline Mercer
• Alexandra Steven
• Sam Maurice
• emma horsfield
• Mike Hill
• Alex Shaw
• S Gill
• Michael Geraghty
• D Mansell
• Teresa Isherwood
• Angelica Barrow
• Rodney Guy Tallowin
• Annabel Farmer
• Richard Thomson
• Dick King
• ian mcmullon
• Susan Lane
• nigel hunt
• Lucy Goodes
• Shirley Shaw
• Michael Teece
• wayne hydon
• Ben Whitehead
• Joy Boldero
• Roger A. Hill
• Susan M. Hill
• brian stemson
• R Badgery
• Edward Hunter
• Russell Dean
• Roland Laycock
• Chris Gibson
• Michael Johnston
• Doug Johnston
• james robertson
• Zoe Hulme
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• Jonathan Ridley
• Robert Smith
• Andy Barker
• Anthony Taylor
• Ian Roche
• John Fearon
• Ann Brooks
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• Jon HURST
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• Beverly Horrell
• Tim Brewer
• Clive Patterson
• David Moss
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• Jackie Wilkinson
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• Clare McMonnies
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• Maire Wilcox
• mark edwards
• rachel Millar
• Thomas Pirovano
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• Louise Anderson
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