12:33pm Wednesday 29th October 2008
By Lucy Tatchell
A VILLAGE shop will be forced to close at the same time the post office is axed.
Rushwick Post Office, near Worcester, is being forced to shut along with nine others in south Worcestershire.
Sub-postmistress Cath Speake said she is now preparing to close the village shop and is job hunting.
“I think in a lot of ways I knew deep down it was going to happen,” she said.
“But over the last few weeks, because people have been so positive with what they have said and what they have done, a lot of people thought it would have gone in our favour.
“It was not to be.”
It is not known when the branch will close, but it could be by the end of the year.
Chairman of Rushwick Parish Council, John Dixon, said the decision was inevitable.
“It is to be expected,” he said.
“I was never very hopeful because of our proximity to St John’s in Worcester and the bus service.”
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