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Douglas Whitbread & Kris Gourlay

Elderly couple at risk of homelessness after 'banking error' linked to Scottish home

A couple in their 70s fear they'll be made homeless after claiming an RBS banking error 30 years ago left them financially "ruined".

Bernard Lockett, 78, says he and his wife Lea, 73, lost tens of thousands of pounds from the sale of a property due to the highstreet bank's financial "mismanagement".

The decades-long saga began in 1993 when the pair sold a holiday tour business and then their bungalow, in Comrie, Perthshire, the following year.

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