I’m very pleased to see in your current edition our local Lib Dem representatives, Jane Dodd MS and David Chadwick MP, strongly criticising Santander for yet another local branch bank closure.

Not that long ago, I changed from Co-op to Santander expressly for the reason that there is a branch in Brecon, and I’ve always found the service there most helpful and kind, and I feel very sorry for such bank employees losing their valued jobs.

Are not banks there to serve us in the first place rather than to make even more money? One of the most serious scourges of our modern society is the ever growing gap between the general public and the super-rich which is what also the banks are. And now already making huge profits, (Santander £1.33 profit in 2024!) and by closing local branches, they contribute further to this fact of crass injustice.

So I shall say goodbye to Santander with regret and not without bitterness, I confess, and return to the Co-op which scores anyway a lot higher on the ethical scale in its investments, and whose telephone service has somewhat improved.

And I will add my voice with even more enthusiasm to campaigns calling on the Government for the just taxing of the ridiculously wealthy, in order to help pay for the seriously underfunded (an underpaid) services such as health and education, essential to a healthy and happy society and to prevent even further cuts to these.