Who else is on the rural roads

BANK of Scotland is the only rival bank to offer mobile services.

It has seven banking vans serving rural locations in Scotland – Portree, Oban, Gairloch, Aberdeenshire, Lerwick, Perth and Brodick.

HSBC dropped its last mobile branch in Cornwall a decade ago while Portman Building Society, which is now owned by Nationwide Building Society, axed a van covering rural Devon in 2003.

The Post Office has 40 mobile vans making a total of 250 rural stop-offs across Britain. On top of post office services it provides basic banking for customers with accounts offered by bank competitors such as Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Nationwide Building Society, NatWest, Santander, the Co-operative Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and TSB Bank.