{"id":67436,"date":"2023-09-18T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotcelebon.com\/?p=67436"},"modified":"2023-09-18T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:03:41","slug":"big-high-street-bank-shuts-doors-on-a-handful-of-branches-for-final-time-and-more-will-follow-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotcelebon.com\/lifestyle\/big-high-street-bank-shuts-doors-on-a-handful-of-branches-for-final-time-and-more-will-follow-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Big high street bank shuts doors on a handful of branches for final time and more will follow | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A BIG high street bank has shut the doors on a handful of branches for the final time – with more set to follow.<\/p>\n

By the end of this month, Barclays will have reportedly closed a total of 36 branches since August.<\/p>\n

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The closures began on August 17, when branches in Southampton and Newark pulled down their shutters for a final time.<\/p>\n

Four banks were also shut down on September 15, and two are set to close their doors next week.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the Falmouth, Camrbdieg, Hemsworth and Lichfield branches all closed, while the Bournemouth and Pontefract Barclays will have both shut down by September 22.<\/p>\n

Following these closures, Redditch, Bude, Hanover Square, London, and Charing Cross, London, will also be permanently shut on September 29.<\/p>\n

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Full list of banks closing branches within DAYS including HSBC and Barclays<\/h3>\n

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All the high street banks closing branches in September including Barclays<\/h3>\n

The closures come as a number of major high street\u00a0banks\u00a0move more of their\u00a0banking services online.<\/p>\n

Several banks\u00a0are expected to have disappeared from the high street by the end of the year, with HSBC,\u00a0NatWest and\u00a0Halifax\u00a0among some of the major banks which will be impacted – along with Barclays.<\/p>\n

But many, particularly the elderly, still rely on in-person services and the closures will make it more difficult for them to access essential banking services.<\/p>\n

Luckily, there are still a number of ways in which affected customers can access basic banking services without having to travel to the next town.<\/p>\n

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If the latest spate of closures will leave you with no bank in your town, you should be able to do most basic tasks at your local\u00a0Post Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can use one of the\u00a0Post Office\u2019s\u00a0nearly 12,000 branches to perform basic banking tasks \u2014 but not open new bank accounts or take\u00a0personal loans\u00a0and\u00a0mortgages.<\/p>\n

Many banks also offer a\u00a0mobile banking service, which is where your bank brings a bus to your local area that has the services that are usually available at your branch.<\/p>\n

You should call up your bank to see if it runs such a service and they will be able to tell you where and when it will be parked.<\/p>\n

Other banks use buildings such as village halls or libraries to offer mobile banking services.<\/p>\n

Banking hubs, which offer traditional shared services, have also been set up in several locations around the UK to help plug the gap \u2014 including Brixham,\u00a0Cambuslang, Cottingham and Rochford.<\/p>\n

It comes as it was revealed that millions of people are living in constituencies without a single bank branch as thousands are axed across the country.<\/p>\n

More than 2.2million customers have to travel miles for face-to-face services, with many more only having access to\u00a0one local branch.<\/p>\n

Britain has now been nicknamed a "banking desert", as 23 constituencies have had all of their bank branches closed down.<\/p>\n

Some major UK banks have axed more than 80 per cent of their branches in the last eight years, says consumer group Which?<\/p>\n

"It is a banking desert in many ways," said former NatWest executive and banking campaigner Derek French.<\/p>\n

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"People now must go to a city or a large town.<\/p>\n

"That used to be a reasonable mileage away, but now the large town might have lost its banks and people have to go 20 or 30 miles or more to their nearest branch."<\/p>\n

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