Welcome to all Clarion readers and those that have been adding their names and support to our campaign to stop the closures of post offices in North Somerset.

It now looks as if the Post Offices in Clevedon are safe, but keep filling in the post card survey when you receive it as we are building a solid case to keep all the post offices open wherever they are, specifically Nailsea Kingshill and Barrow Gurney Post Offices, that now have been told they have 6 weeks to appeal against closure. So far we have had over 250 letters of support, and many people have also added their signatures to our 'green approach to product packaging petition'..... which is on the 3rd page of the Clarion.

One of the big messages that we are getting out is that we are now the voice of the Centre Left in North Somerset and that together united as centre left voters we can actually win in North Somerset, and indeed would have done in the 2005 General Election, if everyone had voted together.

So friends who voted for either the Greens or for Labour in the past, please lend us your votes and vote with me and the Lib Dems next time round and lets make a change in North Somerset and a change for Britain! We are a truly democratic party, and the only one whose policies are made by the membership, so better still join us and make your voices heard in the Party of tomorrow, the Party that believes in being Free, Fair and Green!

Either e-mail me here at brian@brianmathew.org.uk or write to Freepost RRGY-XJYS-RAAE, Liberal Democrats, 12 Henly Lodge, Yatton, BS49 4JQ