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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

'Epidemic' of bank branch closures hitting UK high streets, MPs are warned

High street bank branch closures have hit “epidemic” proportions, MPs have been warned.

Shadow Digital Minister Alex Davies-Jones urged the Government to intervene so outlets are not “allowed to disappear completely”.

Calling on the Tories to “tackle the epidemic of high street bank closures”, she told the Commons that in the late 1980s, more than 20,000 bank branches were open across the UK.

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