RENEWED efforts are to be made to restore post office services at the top end of High Street in Evesham.

The decision by the Post Office to move its High Street operation to the bottom of the Riverside Shopping Centre sparked off a storm of protest - but the move still went ahead.

Now town councillors Roma Kirke and Jo Sandalls, Wychavon District councillor and county council candidate Clive Holt and Parliamentary candidate Peter Luff, until recently Evesham MP, are making a bid to get a sub post office somewhere near the former premises.

Mick Moran has offered a building in Evesham covered market which Coun Kirke said had potential because it was a strong room, available when the market was open.

"We do need something this end of the town, especially now that it seems Norton post office is under threat," she said.

"Lack of services here is causing severe inconvenience, particularly to pensioners and the elderly, as well as affecting trade very badly."

Coun Kirke said they were urging people to write in supporting the call for the service.

"Our first approach was turned down in a very arbitrary way.

"This time we want to tell Post Office Counters they have let the community down very badly.

"There are a lot of elderly people at the north end of the town.

"When their homes were built they had a post office close by. Now it has been taken away."

She added: "I feel angry at the way the town has been treated over this, and particularly those of us living in the north end of the town."