Newcastle Building Society is to close 19 of its branches outside of those in its core North East heartland.
The Society says the branches have become “increasingly unviable due falling customer usage”. In all Newcastle, will close 19 of its 52 branches located in Edinburgh, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Doncaster Leeds, Leicester, Falkirk, Leeds, Bradford and Hull, among others. The Society says it intends to try and keep redundancies to a minimum, offering voluntary redundancies wherever possible. It says the closing branches have become increasingly underused by customers and that it believes this trend will continue over the longer term making it difficult to justify keeping them op...
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