Lloyds Bank is holding on to our urgently needed £5,500
We want our balance back, but we can’t access the money to pay for essential repairs and settle an electricity bill Last November, Lloyds Bank informed me, in my role as treasurer of my parish church, that the church account was to be closed and that I should open a new business account instead. This can only be done online, but a fault with their system prevented me – and local branch staff – from doing so. At the b
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- #2561
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- 25 Aug 2026, 06:11 UTC
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 25 Aug 2026, 06:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Anna Tims
- Section
- Banks and building societies
We want our balance back, but we can’t access the money to pay for essential repairs and settle an electricity bill Last November, Lloyds Bank informed me, in my role as treasurer of my parish church, that the church account was to be closed and that I should open a new business account instead. This can only be done online, but a fault with their system prevented me – and local branch staff – from doing so. At the b
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Lloyds Bank is holding on to our urgently needed £5,500
We want our balance back, but we can’t access the money to pay for essential repairs and settle an electricity bill Last November, Lloyds Bank informed me, in my role as treasurer of my parish church, that the church account was to be closed and that I should open a new business account instead. This can only be done online, but a fault with their system prevented me – and local branch staff – from doing so. At the b
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- machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
- publisher category Banking rss-category
- publisher category Banks and building societies rss-category
- publisher category Consumer affairs rss-category
- publisher category Lloyds Banking Group rss-category
- publisher category Money rss-category
- publisher category UK news rss-category
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- #2272
- Observed
- 25 Aug 2026, 06:11 UTC
- HTTP result
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- 466,427 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt