Natwest to close 197 branches, 5 in Sheffield.

Just been reading the article below from todays Mirror, Natwest are to close 197 branches by the middle of next year costing 680 jobs. What about all the people that are not able to use Internet banking, particularly the elderly what will they do when their local branch closes.

Five of those closures are in Sheffield.

Broomhill

FirthPark

Hillsborough

Millhouses

Woodseats

Plus Stocksbridge and Peniistone.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/astonishing-197-natwest-62-rbs-11618534

and if the RBS in Dronfield closes, currently open only three days a week, there will be no bank at all in Dronfield......

Lloyd are also closing their Banner Cross and Broomhill branches.

Broomhill will have 2 banks compared to the time when there were eight(?).

HSBC open

RBS open

Lloyds to close

NatWest to close

Yorkshire closed

TSB closed

Halifax closed

Alliance and Leicester closed

And Dinnington which now will not have a bank.

It was only a matter of time until my branch (Firth Park) closed down. It has already stopped opening on a Wednesday and Saturday. This comes after the Yorkshire Bank 2 doors down closed in the Summer.

Five of those closures are in Sheffield.

 

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No great loss to the much sought-after village of Firth Park.

I only used their cash machine occasionally, and since Heron Foods opened with an instore ATM, I use it even less.

One more greedy bank closes, proof that Capitalism is on its last legs

Up the workers

Dont really need them these days though so i'm not surprised.

Is this part of the drive for a 'cashless Society?' Beware.

Or are the greedy banks short of money?

I wonder what the Millhouses branch will be turned into?

I wonder what the Millhouses branch will be turned into?

Apartments probably , plenty of profit for developers.

Yeah probably has it always been a bank ?

As more people switch to online and mobile banking there is no need for so many branches.