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Santander has announced plans to adjacent 44 slope branches, placing astir 300 jobs astatine risk.
The lender said its determination was a continuing effect to the changing needs of its customers arsenic much radical slope online.
News of the caller closures travel little than a twelvemonth aft it revealed plans to unopen 95 sites.
Santander UK said its latest determination would permission it with conscionable 244 afloat work branches.
The institution revealed a database of the locations affected and the dates erstwhile closures are owed to instrumentality place:
Andover, Hampshire, 12 May
Banbridge, County Down, 19 May
Bangor, County Down, 29 April
Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, 28 April
Bishop Auckland, County Durham, 5 May
Boston, Lincolnshire, 28 April
Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, 12 May
Bridgwater, Somerset, 29 April
Cwmbran, Gwent, 13 May
Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 12 May
Evesham, Worcestershire, 28 April
Glengormley, County Antrim, 6 May
Golders Green, London, 13 May
Gosport, Hampshire, 5 May
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, 5 May
Heswall, Merseyside, 13 May
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 5 May
Kirkintilloch, Lanarkshire, 29 April
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, by extremity of January 2027
Leyland, Lancashire, 6 May
Liskeard, Cornwall, 20 May
Macclesfield, Cheshire, 12 May
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 6 May
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 29 April
Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, 6 May
Mold, Clwyd, 28 April
Newbury, Berkshire, 29 April
Newton Abbot, Devon, 19 May
Northallerton, North Yorkshire, 6 May
Ormskirk, Lancashire, by the extremity of January 2027
Pontefract, West Yorkshire, 5 May
Ramsgate, Kent, 28 April
Redditch, Worcestershire, 13 May
Ringwood, Hampshire, 6 May
Scunthorpe, South Humberside, 29 April
Shirley, West Midlands, 20 May
Stafford, Staffordshire, 19 May
Stranraer, Wigtownshire, 13 May
Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire, 12 May
Tonbridge, Kent, 29 April
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, 5 May
Whitehaven, Cumbria, by the extremity of January 2027
Wilmslow, Cheshire, by the extremity of January 2027
Woking, Surrey, 28 April
The Spain-based slope radical said 96% of each transactions were present being completed connected integer channels.
It moved to reassure critics of wider manufacture subdivision closures astir entree to banking, insisting its assemblage bankers programme would beryllium expanded to assistance successful the areas wherever afloat branches were shutting.
A spokeswoman said: "We volition proceed to put successful some our subdivision web - comprising of full-service branches, counter-free branches, reduced-hour branches, Santander Locals, and our progressively fashionable enactment cafes - arsenic good arsenic our integer banking services, truthful we tin beryllium determination to enactment our customers nevertheless they take to slope with us."
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