Category: Banks

Another nail in the coffin!

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How disappointing can one get with the current UK government? I know that if we lived in France, Germany or even Italy, no way would they let one their bastions of industrialisation a.k.a a Steel Industry die a slow and painful death.

Rules may be Rules, but for heavens sake, the British government needs to have some backbone and put some money into British Steel and save it from disappearing forever.

Private Equity will have made millions from this debacle, as they have done with other such disasters.

The Changing face of the High Street

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I was in London on business last week and needed to find a branch of the Nat West Bank, that took some doing – even the central Nat West help line couldn’t tell me the nearest branch to Oxford Street was, how incompetent is that! I eventually popped into an Internet café and found the info myself. Can I have my £1.00 back please?

That started me thinking about how many bank branches have closed over the years and what the buildings were now being used for. Certainly walking around various streets at the Tottenham Court road end of Oxford Street, you can see many former Bank buildings now being used by companies such as Car Phone Warehouse and various Coffee companies.

I had a look on the internet to see if there was a site that looked into this, but apart from planning applications to turn yet another bank in to another Wine Bar/Mobile Phone shop/Coffee shop, I couldn’t find any. May you might know of some!

Oh! and by the way, Nat West; get someone in who knows where your branches are located, use some of the massive profits you make, it’s called customer service!

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