SOMERTON and Frome's LibDem MP is calling on the Government to spend some of the tens of billions of pounds saved from the axing of the northern leg of HS2 to help save ticket offices under threat of closure.

Sarah Dyke opposes the potential closure of ticket offices at local stations and has previously written to the Transport Secretary to express her view.

She says elderly and disabled rail users are especially reliant on ticket offices to ensure they get the support they need when catching a train.

Ms Dyke said: “This Conservative government has utterly neglected vital transport projects, both here in Somerton and Frome and across the country.

"This shambles over HS2 should at least mean that ticket offices are saved.

“Elderly and vulnerable people face uncertainty when they go to the train station with no ticket offices and many are left isolated in our community, struggling to leave their homes with insufficient local transport links.

“Just like northern areas no longer benefiting from HS2, our community has been taken for granted at every turn by the Conservative Party.

“This extra money for transport links must urgently be invested in rectifying this situation.

"That means, saving Somerton and Frome’s ticket offices with the funds from the abandoned northern leg.

“A failure to do so would be another slap in the face for all those that have suffered at the hands of this Conservative government.”