City Region bank branches will be affected after HSBC confirmed 69 stores will close due to a shift to online banking.
The bank said it would try to replace the affected branches with other banking services such as new ATMs and pop-up banks, the Mirror reports.
HSBC confirmed it is closing branches because customers increasingly prefer online banking. It said fewer than half its customers are active users of a branch and footfall was down 50% since 2017. Among the affected are Ellesmere Port, due to shut on September 15 and Bootle, due to close on October 6.
