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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Damon Wilkinson

'There was umpteen of them, now they've all gone': The Greater Manchester town that lost all its banks

The old Halifax building society is now a fried chicken shop. It closed in 2019 despite a petition signed by hundreds of people and a campaign backed by both the local MP and council leader.

The Royal Bank of Scotland shut its doors a year earlier. Since then it's been a takeaway and now it's going to be converted into flats.

Six years ago Radcliffe, a town of 30,000 people, had three banks and a building society. Now there's none left.

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