This blog is my attempt to connect directly with the people of Essex. I hope that it will become a forum for discussion and debate around many of the issues and challenges facing our county. In a sense this is as much your blog as it is mine - so make the most of it and send me your thoughts and comments. In return, I hope to be able to get across a little of what I and the rest of my colleagues in County Hall do; how we are trying to make Essex a better place to live and work, how we are trying to improve the services we offer to you and how we are attempting to promote Essex, locally, nationally and internationally.
Thursday December 20, 2007 So we now know that Post Office Ltd intend to shut 29 out of 31 post offices in the county that had been earmarked for closure, though the 2 that have been saved have simply been replaced by a proposal to close 2 more that will now go through a further six week consultation process. The County Council has been fighting against the closures since the announcement in October. I am truly saddened that this decision has been made, coming especially just a few weeks before Christmas. It is now obvious that the consultation undertaken by Post Office Ltd was just a sham to try to give credibility to a decision that had already been taken.
