banking
24 Oct 2022
‘Warm banks’ and ‘mobile community shop’ set for rural villages
Lincolnshire Live reports that organisations helping local residents deal with the rising cost of living will be granted £65,000 towards ‘warm banks’ and a mobile food shop for rural areas,...
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03 Oct 2022
What happens when all the banks leave town?
The BBC reports that it’s been a couple of months since the last bank closed its doors in Brechin Some people have hardly noticed. They moved to internet banking years...
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30 May 2022
A hub for the village: how locals are buying up pubs at risk of closure
An article in the Guardian discusses how the rise of community pubs is slowing a long-term decline – and offering additional services like post offices and basic banking Pubs have...
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15 Nov 2021
Barclays to close more bank branches in 2022
Consumer survey outlet Which? reports that Barclays has announced it will close two more bank branches in early 2022 further restricting access to cash for rural communities The news comes...
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12 Oct 2020
Elderly forced to bank online in pandemic – but then cannot log on
The Telegraph reports that the rate of change from physical to online banking is creating a ‘societal divide’ as people who are poorer, elderly, or those who live in rural...
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28 Nov 2018
Podcast Episode – The market town with no bank
Carole Walker, is a former political news correspondent with the BBC. She has developed her own Podcast called ‘The View from Here’ and has kindly allowed the Rural Services Network...
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19 Nov 2018
Calls for action over bank closures
The Banking Standards Board (BSB) has spoken out to say that small businesses suffer the most from the closure of bank branches and that British banks need to work together...
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10 Sep 2018
Concerns about rural access to banking
Yorkshire Coast Radio reported on plans by the Chair of North Yorkshire Council to write to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Secretary of...
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10 Sep 2018
RBS to shut 54 bank branches
The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it will close 54 branches across England and Wales in January 2019, with 258 jobs set to be lost. This follows 162 branch...
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27 Jan 2017
Concern over ‘cash deserts’ in countryside
Rural areas could become “cash deserts” unless a solution is found to a dispute over ATM fees, it has been claimed. The argument is between some banks and independent cash...
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