Speaking to Radio Wales on Thursday, Dave Barrett, head of the Urban Post Office Network for Wales, said the decision to close so many branches was regrettable.

BBC: City to lose 16 post offices

Tom Ridge: President Bush's appointee as head of the newly created Cabinet post of Office of Homeland Security, Ridge has been governor of Pennsylvania since 1995.

CNN: Recovery: More layoffs in the air

Mungiki recently stuck the severed head of one of their opponents on a post outside a chief's office.

ECONOMIST: Kenya

According to AFP, he was sidelined to some degree when Mr Sarkozy took office in 2007 but made good use of a largely symbolic post - head of the UMP's parliamentary delegation - to raise his profile.

BBC: Profile: Jean-Francois Cope, leader of France's UMP

He has done away with the post of prime minister, vesting the powers of a head of government in the director of his own office.

ECONOMIST: Angola