South Pembrokeshire AM Angela Burns has launched a passionate plea in the Welsh Assembly to save local post offices from closure. Speaking during a Conservative debate calling for a halt to the Post Office closure programme, she said that post offices were not being allowed to operate in a free market. "Please tell me how refusing to allow post offices to sell television licences but letting the local Co-op or the local paper shop in the same villages sell those very same licences can be a free-market," she said. "Post offices are businesses; they need level playing fields. This Government has said: 'You will do this job, but we will tie one hand behind your back and not allow you to provide many of the services that other business around you can'." Post offices in Pembrokeshire will discover on June 3 which are to close. Mrs. Burns went on to outline the problems faced by post masters and mistresses at the moment. "They are in enormous jeopardy. Within my constituency, there are a number of post offices where the incumbent would like to retire and sell his or her business, but cannot do so. Who can sell a business when you do not know what your business is, what its value will be, or what it will be like tomorrow? These people are in an awful situation and quite a few of them are at a point where they would like to retire, but have no way out except to fold.  "They are being treated shamefully and the communities that they serve are being marginalised."