You won't listen? We'll build a wall

By Rosie Walker, Third Sector, 26 March 2008

Campaigners built a brick wall around the entrance to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform last Monday in protest over its lack of response to their concerns.

A group of 12 Lincolnshire villagers, campaigning to save the post office in Langworth, travelled to London by coach, bringing wheelbarrows and breeze blocks with them. They built a five-foot high wall, blocking the doors to the building, before Susan Bragol, correspondence manager at the department, came to meet them...

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