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Closures leave UK with one of Europe’s lowest densities of bank branches

People walking past high street bank in UK
Photo: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images

Shift to digital still leaves significant number of customers struggling for access to services they want.

More than one in three UK bank and building society branches have been shut in the last five years, with hundreds more closures planned. That leaves the country with one of the lowest densities of branch coverage in Europe, with just one bank branch for every 10,000 people. And one

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