A village will gain a temporary post office while its main branch closes for a four-week refit.

Great Massingham Post Office and store will close at 1pm on Tuesday until November 14.

A temporary mobile post office service will be available from Wednesday between St Mary’s Church in Station Road and the Dabbling Duck in Abbey Road while the work takes place. 

This interim service will operate between 8am and 5.30pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and between 8am and 12.30pm on Saturday. 

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To provide this temporary service, the Burnham Deepdale mobile service will need to close during the refurbishment work.

Following the refit, Great Massingham Post Office will be open daily with almost 30 extra hours of service a week.

The post office will be open the same hours as the shop, from 7am to 7pm between Monday to Saturday and from 9am and 7pm on Sunday.

Sally Ingold, Post Office area change manager, said: “We’ve been working with the postmaster to provide an interim branch to maintain service during big improvements being made to the post office and shop.

"We’re delighted that there’s the opportunity for a temporary mobile post office in Great Massingham for the convenience of customers.”