POLITICIANS ON the campaign trail have voiced their concerns over the future of St Andrews Post Office.

The branch was announced as one of 11 in Scotland to be relocated to a W. H. Smith store.

SNP parliamentary candidate in North East Fife, Rod Campbell, fears it will be a step towards ending postal services in St Andrews.

He said, “After 10 years of Labour there is a real danger that their obsession with privatisation represents a real danger to Fife’s postal services.”

Conservative candidate Ted Brocklebank said, “While I can recognise the case to house rural post offices in police stations and elsewhere as a means of maintaining a presence, I think it is difficult to argue that a post office like St Andrews can somehow be absorbed within an already busy local business.”

* Free Scotland Party candidate Jim Fairlie has called on politicians of all parties to “raise their game” to win the respect of the electorate.

Speaking in the Perth constituency he said the fact less than 50% of Scots voted in the last elections speaks volumes for the general distaste felt for politicians.

He said the Conservatives connived with the Labour Party to hide the true wealth of Scottish oil by keeping secret the McCrone Report, but also branded the SNP’s Independence in Europe stance “completely dishonest.”

* Campaigning in Crieff, SNP Holyrood candidate Roseanna Cunningham claimed that various hard-pressed groups would benefit from her party’s plans to abolish council tax.

“Under our proposal, a single person will be, on average, £430 better off, couples will be, on average, £144 better off, families, on average £488 better off and pensioners as much as £966 better off,” she said.