Post Office looks to move as home set to close

The post office in Bury St Edmunds town centre is looking for a new home following news the shop it operates in is to close.

TG Jones on Cornhill in the Suffolk town is due to shut on 30 September.

The Post Office said it was welcoming applications from retailers interested in running the branch.

Peter Prinsley, the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, said the town still needed a post office, and he was confident a new location would be found.

"We are having a meeting with [the Post Office] next week to see what we can do from the point of view of our parliamentary advocacy for this," he said.

"We need to find somebody else who can take over the post office."

He added that the downstairs of the old post office building in the town was not currently occupied.

"Perhaps the best thing of all would be to get somebody to take that over," he said.

The Post Office said that having a provision in local communities was "important to us" and it would "continue to work hard to restore services in the area as soon as possible".

When the current post office closes, the nearest alternatives will be Hardwick post office and Moreton Hall post office, both of which are more than a mile away.

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