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Cllr Ian Shires 12 Jan 11
Liberal Democats on Walsall Council succeeded in getting unanimous backing at Monday’s Full Council meeting welcoming government plans which will protect local Post Offices after years of closures by previous Labour and Tory Governments.
Speaking at the meeting Liberal Democrat group Leader councillor Ian Shires said that it was important that Walsall Council played its part by ensuring that it put as much business through the Post Office network as possible…
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Advertiser 29 Jul 10
A 38-year-old Walsall postmistress has been remanded on bail for trial after denying 36 charges of stealing more than £5,200.
Jaswinder Uppal, of Wilkes Avenue, who worked at the Post Office branch in Lazy Hill Road, Aldridge, before being suspended, is alleged to have committed the thefts between February 2007 and June last year…
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Express & Star 19 Jul 10
A telephone exchange and post office were targeted in a suspected arson attack.
Ten firefighters fought a number of blazes started in the three-storey building in John Street, Willenhall, which houses both businesses, at 9.45pm last night…
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Express & Star 30 Apr 10
Cuts in post office workers’ wage bills threaten to put branches across the Midlands out of business, staff have warned.
The National Federation of Subpostmasters has warned of a ‘double squeeze’ of falling income from Post Office Limited, and soaring staff and utility bills…
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Walsall Advertiser 7 Dec 09
Toddlers who spent weeks filling shoeboxes with Christmas gifts for soldiers in Afghanistan were turned away from a post office. Three and four-year-olds from Little Green Dragons Nursery visited the High Street branch in Brownhills, holding the decorated shoe boxes they had filled with items such as toothpaste, aftershave and magazines…
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Express & Star 22 Oct 09
Thousands of postal workers went out on strike today, after last-ditch talks between unions and management failed. Pickets who assembled at the West Midlands’ two main sorting offices today waved banners and flags at Royal Mail in Birmingham and Wolverhampton…
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Express & Star 23 Sep 09
A postmistress from Aldridge conned elderly customers out of thousands of pounds by tricking them into punching in debit card pin numbers twice…
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Express & Star 27 May 09
Business is booming at a post office saved from the axe, after customers rallied round to keep it open. Regular users of The Butts post office in Walsall held a protest last autumn when they discovered the branch inside Johal News was among five in the area earmarked for closure…
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Express & Star 13 May 09
Postal workers have not delivered mail to families in a fire-damaged Willenhall tower block for over a week – because the lifts have broken down at St Anne’s Court…
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Express & Star 1 Apr 09
A long-serving Royal Mail worker from Walsall who helped pull three students to safety after a car crash on the motorway has been awarded for his bravery…