Category Archives: Chandlers Ford

Highest Lib Dem share of the vote in Winchester local elections for 10 years

We’re all stunned by the great results of the elections last Thursday: More votes and more seats in the Winchester District and the new Winchester constituency than the Tories Highest Lib Dem share of the vote in Winchester district or …

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Fryern Hill Post Office – now it’s March

As most local people now know, the replacement post office for Fryern Hill didn’t reopen in January as originally promised. Apparently, the original negotiations for a replacement site fell through. I’ve been told that the post office have a new …

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Fighting Chandler’s Ford bus cuts

We’ve just launched a website (http://www.saveourbuses.org.uk) and a petition against the proposed cuts to the Red Rocket bus service in Chandler’s Ford and Hiltingbury. In essence, almost no Blue Line buses will go north of Fryern Hill or west of …

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Post Office Closures – despite all the hard work, almost all closures to go ahead

Well now we know… After all the effort people made across Hampshire to argue for their local post offices, almost nothing has changed. Only one Post Office (Goodworth Clatford, near Andover) managed to get a reprieve. A branch in Whitbury …

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Taking the post office campaign to Whitehall

The Government decided to close these 2,500 post offices. Post Office Management are just administering a government decision. That’s why I was in Downing Street today with Chris Huhne MP, Sandra Gidley MP and Councillor Kelsie Learney presenting the petitions we collected opposing the closure.

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