Taxpayer-controlled RBS has risked another backlash by announcing a further 54 branch closures in England and Wales.
The latest cull comes on top of 421 closures announced since December last year, taking the total since then to 475.
It means the high street lender is axing nearly half its branch network in less than a year. Prior to the rapid rounds of deep cuts it had 1,003 branches.
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