YOU HAVE YOUR SAY
NATWEST WILL RIP THE HEART OUT OF THRIVING MARKET TOWNS Money Mail, December 27
EVERY week, Money Mail receives hundreds of your letters and emails about our stories. Here are some from our report about how bailed-out RBS/Nat West is shutting one in four of its branches this year, leaving 24 towns and villages without a single bank . . . HORNSEA in East Yorkshire is losing both its banks, Nat West and Lloyds, in June, so we will have to travel 15 miles to get to a branch. Apparently, neither knew the other was proposing to close.
On top of this, our bus service is hourly and is constantly under threat. N. W., E. Yorks. THERE was always a huge queue in my local branch, until it closed without warning. A few weeks ago, Nat West failed to order me a replacement bank card, so I was left without access to cash for two weeks with no local branch. S. W., Manchester. INSTEAD of closing the last bank in town, why not have a shared scheme where all the main banks share the costs of running one branch? Then the public can do their transactions for any bank in the same building. R. T., Devon. MOST everyday banking can be done in a Post Office, which has far longer opening hours, particularly in the back of beyond. Would residents prefer to lose their Post Office, but keep their bank? S. P., Dartmouth, Devon. I HAVE never understood why banks can’t all share one building in smaller towns, with a desk for each bank inside. F. M., Oxon. HOW on earth could Nat West be expected to remain open with so little footfall? It is a business, after all. R. F., Lincoln. I SUPPORT all those who are trying to keep their banks open, but none of my children use banks and they are typical of that generation. Perhaps we need to persuade them to make use of surviving branches. O. S., Powys.
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