{"id":65752,"date":"2025-05-15T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=65752"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:17:14","slug":"rotherhams-councillors-and-people-continue-their-fight-to-keep-town-centre-post-office-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/rotherhams-councillors-and-people-continue-their-fight-to-keep-town-centre-post-office-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotherham&#8217;s councillors and people continue their fight to keep town centre post office open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rotherham Council and the town&#8217;s people continue their ongoing fight to keep their main post office open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after Post Office Ltd announced a five-year transformation plan last month, which includes offloading their remaining 108 directly-owned branches in the autumn to independent businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing them down would help fund wages for postmasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the branches to be offloaded includes the main branch in Rotherham town centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After unanimous agreement to oppose the closure by all councillors, a proposal has now been presented to the Government outlining the views of the town with MP Sarah Champion representing Rotherham in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councillors Simon Currie and Gillian Garnett expressed their anger on the closure this week along with the people of Rotherham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DL-1l9PwJDg?si=Y8tH0bJYdkrGgToD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rotherham councillors and people will not give up in the fight to keep their main town centre post office open after Post Office Ltd confirmed last month they will be offloading 108 branches in the autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":65811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,21,16,103],"tags":[231,15,867,132,369,131],"class_list":["post-65752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-top-stories","category-watch","tag-community","tag-news","tag-post-office","tag-rotherham","tag-rotherham-council","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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