A new Post Office branch is to open next month in Woodilee Village Store, Lenzie.

The new service, located in the SPAR at Woodilee, will be one of the Post Office’s ‘local style’ branches with a low-screened, open-plan Post Office service point integrated into the retail counter. Customers will be able to carry out a wide range of Post Office transactions alongside retail purchases.

Local MP Jo Swinson met recently with Bearsden resident Charles Boyle, whose granddaughter Zoe suffers from cystic fibrosis, to discuss the urgent need for access to the drug Orkambi for those with the condition.

Poppy Baird from Lenzie Meadow Primary School has been chosen as this year’s winner of East Dunbartonshire MP Jo Swinson’s Christmas card design competition. Olivia Spence and Ella Hogan, also from Lenzie Meadow, were picked as runners-up.

The latest ScotRail performance statistics have shown that Milngavie is the third worst performing station in Scotland, with only 27.7% of trains arriving on time.

Jo Swinson MP passed on early Christmas greetings to the team at Bishopbriggs Delivery Office. Christmas is Royal Mail’s busiest time of the year and Jo saw the hard work and dedication of local postal workers to sort and deliver festive parcels, cards and letters. 

Local MP Jo Swinson has joined a cross-party group of 200 MPs and former MPs in signing the Divest Parliament pledge and calling on the Trustees of the Parliamentary Pension Fund to move their investments away from carbon-intensive industries.

Local MP Jo Swinson has donated tree saplings to Milngavie in Bloom as part of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, a network of forest conservation initiatives to mark Her Majesty's lifetime of service to the Commonwealth.

Local MP Jo Swinson visited Holy Family Primary School in Kirkintilloch recently for a tour of the refurbished building, to meet staff and chat to P6 and P7 pupils.

East Dunbartonshire MP Jo Swinson met recently with Torrance entrepreneur Rossie Stone, founder of start-up Dekko Comics, to discuss Rossie’s plans for the company, which include a crowdfunding campaign to be launched on Tuesday 20^th November.

Commenting on the proposed library closures in Lenzie and Westerton, Jo Swinson MP said: