Ex-councillor wins TSB fraud battle

A former SNP councillor who had £18,000 raided from his bank account by fraudsters has been refunded after a month-long ordeal. Richard Lewis is one of 1,300 TSB customers whose accounts have been hacked by fraudsters who have benefitted from IT failures.

He had been told he would be charged up to £30 a day if payments continued to leave his account. Financial regulators are investigating TSB after a change to its IT systems left up to 1.9 million customers struggling to make transactions.