The Sentinel

PO WILL SHUT AFTER CHRISTMAS

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A Stoke-on-trent community is to be left without a post office.

Abbey Hulton Post Office is closing in the New Year after Morrisons decided to shut its Mccoll’s branch on Abbots Road.

The supermarke­t giant has agreed to keep the post office open until after Christmas. But customers will then have to go to Birches Head, Baddeley Green or Milton for their post office needs. The

Abbots Road store is shutting alongside other Mccoll’s branches in Blurton, and Longton. Its Keele University branch is also shutting.

A Post Office spokesman said: “Morrisons has taken the decision to close some Mccoll’s stores that hosted post offices, due to the unprofitab­ility of the retail in that store.”

Morrisons is closing 132 of the existing 1,164 Mccoll’s stores.

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