Campaigners fighting to save a Bournemouth post office from closure have vowed to fight on following a "frustrating" showdown with Post Office officials.

St Albans church in Charminster provided the setting for the second public meeting to oppose the proposed shutdown of the branch at the Co-op convenience store in Charminster Road.

The branch is among 2,500 sub post offices across the country threatened with closure.

Bob Anderton, Queen's Park and Charminster community forum chairman, told the Daily Echo how campaigners had been left feeling "annoyed and frustrated" by the lack of answers from Post Office representatives.

He said: "When they were asked to give reasons why that particular post office was to be closed no definitive answers were given. We discovered that the closure report had many errors."

Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood asked whether the Lower Charminster Road post office was making a profit but Post Office officials refused to answer his question or say if the branch was losing money.

Representatives from the local business community, as well as the elderly and disabled, put their case for keeping the branch open and were assured that their views would be taken into consideration. But, despite their compelling arguments, the branch may still have to close by the end of the year.

Post Office officials failed to be pressed on whether their Chief Executive would receive £1.5 million if he manages to push through the closure programme.

Afterwards, Mr Anderton pledged that Winton and Queen's Park Forum as well as the Charminster Forum would continue to fight the closure "to the bitter end."

Three local churches have joined forces with the forums in a concerted campaign to halt the shutdown.