Village postie who once stopped a burglary is retiring after nearly 40 years

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Mary Dainton is known in the village of East Markham simply as 'Mary the Post'

A Nottinghamshire village's postie who once helped to foil a burglary is preparing to hang up her keys after nearly 40 years of service. Mary Dainton, 67, says "the job has changed" since she first started doing rounds in the Newark village of East Markham 37 years ago.

Those decades of service have meant that with her distinctive flash of pink hair, Mrs Dainton is known affectionately across the village simply as 'Mary the Post'. As she prepares for her last day on May 31, Mrs Dainton said: "A lot of people in the village have become friends."I just love the village and the people in it, I've said to people 'you're my East Markham family'.

"The job's changing, it's not what it used to be. It's all about money and how fast you can earn that money for them now, not the postie who goes round and makes sure people are all right." She said: "Four men had picked up a gas bottle and smashed the French windows of the house but when they heard me coming, they stopped and started driving towards me in this car. I backed off because I thought 'there's four of them and one of me'.

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