Hundreds of people have put pen to paper in the battle to save Bradford's busiest city centre post office from closure.

More than 200 readers have already signed up to the Telegraph & Argus campaign to save the Exchange Post Office in Bank Street - and the number is growing daily.

Post Office Ltd, which runs the country's 17,000 branches, has proposed to shut the branch next February because it says it is not making money.

But the plan has sparked a storm of protest with politicians, business and regeneration chiefs all registering their opposition.

Today, Imran Khan, manager of the Grange Interlink Centre - one of the biggest inner city community centres - also started a petition against the closure.

He said: "The staff and users are absolutely dismayed at the notion that it could shut.

"I am absolutely amazed they could even contemplate it."

The Rev Geoff Reid, team vicar of the city's Touchstone multi-faith centre, said he and centre users were concerned about the proposals.

"It's purely based on arithmetic. The decision has been made by somebody from outside the city who doesn't know it," he said.

T&A readers have responded to our campaign by filling in protest forms about the proposal to shut the Exchange Post Office and improve smaller branches in Darley Street and Sunbridge Road.

They include opposition from pensioners and disabled people.

Many say they come to the city centre on buses which stop at the Interchange or other nearby shops and are unable to easily get to the other post offices.

And they have registered their disbelief that it is proposed to close one that will be on the edge of the £300 million Broadway shopping centre.

The T&A will pass all the forms to Postwatch - the postal services watchdog - before the consultation period finishes on Tuesday, September 28.

Pensioners' campaigner Audrey Raistrick said today she had received more than 150 signatures for her petition for all the district's post offices to be kept.

A Post Office Ltd spokesman said there would be a full analysis of all responses at the end of the consultation period.