PROPOSED shake-up plans to Cornwall's Registration Service which include closing an outstation in Callington have been opposed by councils in Callington and Calstock. Cornwall County Council is planning to close six office outstations together with other changes which they say will make the service more efficient. But Calstock parish councillors said at their recent meeting they did not wish to see 'this gradual erosion of rural services.' Although the service which operates from the Community Clinic in Callington on a Tuesday afternoon was limited they still wished to retain it. Calstock councillor Mike Greenwood said the £15,000 the county would be saving by closing the offices was a 'drop in the ocean' in terms of county council finances. People wanting to register a birth or death in Callington will have to travel to main offices in Saltash or Liskeard if the shake-up goes ahead. The plans, however, will improve flexibility with people being able to register events at any office countrywide, not just where it happened. Callington town council has joined forces with the four other towns in South East Cornwall — Liskeard, Saltash, Torpoint and Looe — to opposed the plans. Outstations in Looe and Torpoint are also earmarked for closure. 'We are joining together in campaigning to stop this service from disappearing,' said Callington Portreeve Andrew Long. 'We want to keep it going in these five towns because it is a public service. It may be not that economical to run but in the interest of the general public we need to keep these outstations.' Cornwall's chief registrar Janet Wynne told the Times in a recent article that the registrar had to shut the office in Saltash to run the service in Callington each week and much of the time spent there was unused. She said the money saved from closing the outstations would be used to improve the service to better effect including providing a telephone registration information line.