MP concerned over loss of rural post offices

Stuart Anderson was elected to the South Shropshire seat earlier this month

An MP has written to the Post Office to complain about the loss of a number of rural branches.

The Post Office says the planned closures in Clunton, Clunbury and Aston Munslow in Shropshire are due to "low customer usage", with a mobile service to be offered instead.

Stuart Anderson, the new Conservative MP for South Shropshire, is concerned about access to services, and has asked the chief executive of the Post Office what can be done to protect it.

He said: "For some people they might live too far away, there might not be public services to connect them to a local post office."

Mr Anderson, who took over as MP from fellow Conservative Philip Dunne, said he understood the closures on 5 August had come about because of staff retirements.

He added he had inherited a "very remote and rural constituency" and said the issue of post office availability was important to him.

"We need to ensure that we've got everything that we can that people need for their daily and weekly lives," he said of his rural constituents.