Thanks to Ben Prater and BBC Radio Wiltshire for covering the withdrawal of the Lloyds Bank mobile banking van from Malmesbury, the last banking facility in our town.
I have written to Lloyds CEO to ask them to delay the planned May closure until we can have a community banking hub here, which Malmesbury Town Council is very keen to support. I'm also in touch with the mayors of Tetbury and Fairford and the chair of Cricklade Town Council who are having their mobile banking van service withdrawn.
Small market towns like ours need banking facilities to support our residents and town centre businesses. The 'High Street' banks need to work together to provide them.