Full list of North West Post Office branches at risk of closing amid 'immoral' shake-up following Horizon scandal

Levi Winchester & Amy Fenton
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The Post Office has announced the proposed closure of 115 branches - including several across Lancashire and the North West.

The locations which have been earmarked for closure are the last remaining sites that are directly owned by the Post Office, known as Crown Post Offices branches, the Mirror reports.

Dave Ward, Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary, said: “For the company to announce the closure of hundreds of Post Offices hot on the heels of the Horizon scandal is as tone deaf as it is immoral.

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"CWU members are victims of the Horizon scandal – and for them to now fear for their jobs ahead of Christmas is yet another cruel attack.”

The Post Office has 11,500 branches across the UK, the majority of which is run by independent postmasters, which some are operated by retailers such as WH Smith, Tesco, Morrisons and the Co-Op.

Nigel Railton, chair of the Post Office, said “The Post Office has a 360-year history of public service and today we want to secure that service for the future by learning from past mistakes and moving forward for the benefit of all postmasters.

“We can, and will, restore pride in working for a business with a legacy of service, rather than one of scandal. The value postmasters deliver in their communities must be reflected in their pockets, and this Transformation Plan provides a route to adding more than £250million annually to total postmaster remuneration by 2030, subject to government funding."

Lancashire branches at risk of closure

  • Morecambe

  • Poulton-le-Fylde

Cumbria branches at risk of closure

  • Kendal

  • Furness House, Barrow

North West branches at risk of closure

  • Didsbury Village

  • Eccles

  • Kendal

  • Furness House, Barrow

  • Eccleston Street

  • Hyde

  • Manchester

  • Morecambe

  • Poulton Le Fylde

  • Prestwich

  • Salford City

  • Stockport

Full list of Post Office branches at risk of closure

  • Aldwych

  • Antrim

  • Baker Street

  • Bangor

  • Barnes Green

  • Barnet

  • Belfast City

  • Bexhill On Sea

  • Bideford

  • Birmingham

  • Bransholme

  • Breck Road

  • Bridlington

  • Brixton

  • Broadway

  • Caernarfon

  • Cambridge City

  • Canning Town

  • Chester Le Street

  • City of London

  • Clapham Common

  • Cosham

  • Cricklewood

  • Crossgates

  • Croydon High Street

  • Dereham

  • Didsbury Village

  • Dunraven Place

  • East Dulwich

  • Eccles

  • Eccleston Street

  • Edinburgh City

  • Furness House

  • Glasgow

  • Gloucester

  • Golders Green

  • Great Portland Street

  • Grimsby

  • Haddington

  • Hampstead

  • Harlesden

  • Harold Hill

  • High Holborn

  • Houndsditch

  • Hyde

  • Inverness

  • Islington

  • Kendal

  • Kennington Park

  • Kensington

  • Kettering

  • Kilburn

  • Kingsbury

  • Kingsland High Street

  • Kirkwall

  • Knightsbridge

  • Leigh

  • Leighton Buzzard

  • Liskeard

  • London Bridge

  • Londonderry

  • Lower Edmonton

  • Lupus Street

  • Manchester

  • Matlock

  • Melville Road

  • Merthyr Tydfil

  • Milton Keynes

  • Morecambe

  • Morley

  • Mount Pleasant

  • Mutley

  • Nailsea

  • Newquay

  • Newtownards

  • Northolt

  • Old Swan

  • Oswestry

  • Oxford

  • Paddington Quay

  • Paignton

  • Port Talbot

  • Portsmouth

  • Poulton Le Fylde

  • Prestwich

  • Raynes Park

  • Redditch

  • Roman Road

  • Romsey

  • Rotherham

  • Salford City

  • Saltcoats

  • Sheffield City

  • South Ockendon

  • South Shields

  • Southall

  • Springburn Way

  • St Johns

  • St Peters Street

  • Stamford

  • Stamford Hill

  • Stockport

  • Stornoway

  • Stroud

  • Sunderland City

  • Teignmouth

  • The Markets

  • Vauxhall Bridge Road

  • Wealdstone

  • Westbourne

  • Wester Hailes

  • Windsor

  • Worlds End

  • Yate Sodbury

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