ACTORS have recited Shakespearean quotes in short videos to help save post offices from closing.

Bill Paterson and Josette Simon have got involved in the campaign to keep open the branches in Crouch End and Muswell Hill after it was announced at the start of the year they were facing being administrated.

If no new buyers take them on, they will face closure and a petition has since been launched, along with leaflets being handed out to raise awareness about the plans.

The latest effort to keep the postal services open included recording video clips by the two actors who live in the area, after they appeared on “Crouch End TV”, quoting famous lines by the Bard.

Each video includes a line from a different Shakespearean play, with the added tagline at the end: “It’s our post office, let’s save it.”

Bill Paterson lives in Crouch End and has appeared in films including, The Killing Fields, The Witches and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

He said: “When I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again. It must needs wither. It is our post office, let’s save it.”

“The most unkindest cut of all. It is our post office, let’s save it.”

Josette Simon also lives in Crouch End and is an actress who has appeared in Casualty, Midsomer Murders and Poiret.

She showed her support for the potential closures of the post offices by quoting some of the Bard’s poignant rhymes.

Ms Simon said: “Let grief convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it. It is our post office, let’s save it.”

The poems were inspired by personalised stamps released by Royal Mail on Saturday, to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

The stamps featured more lines from his plays, including: ”Screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail”.

To watch the videos, visit: http://crouchendtv.co.uk/

To get involved in the campaign to save the post offices, visit: http://goo.gl/forms/YUnkLFJq8e