Campaigners and Twickenham MP Vince Cable met with Royal Mail bosses to discuss the prospect of creating a new post town for Whitton.

Dr Cable met postal chiefs on Friday, September 19, to put forward the case for a post town called Whitton to avoid parts of the town continuing to be described as Hounslow, and not Richmond.

If the issue is agreed, the new post town would mean Whitton would have its own identifiable number under the TW postcode.

The meeting was arranged in the hope Dr Cable's influence would help the We Want to be Whitton campaign and rectify the issue.

The MP said: “Whitton residents are caused great inconvenience by the fact that doctors, council officials and emergency services, let alone estate agents and insurers, think they live in another borough.

“People in Whitton have a pride in belonging to and living in Whitton and nothing causes more annoyance than letters sent by the Royal Mail having ‘Whitton’ crossed out and replaced by Hounslow.

“I, along with many campaigners, recognise that there are many, perhaps too many, difficulties which are presented by changing the postcode but it is a more modest and achievable request to create a recognised post town.”

We Want to be Whitton campaigners said the “decades of postcode error” had a negative impact on various issues, including house prices and insurance costs.