Last Saturday, “I met a Man as I went walking; we got talking Man and I”.

The rest is most definitely not AA Milne. The Man was spitting blood. “Have you heard that the NatWest bank in Dartmouth is closing? I have only recently transferred to them from Lloyds,” he said.

We agreed that NatWest’s action was a betrayal, sheer jugglery, in that it had given out or allowed the notion that, as the the last bank standing in the town, it would have stayed put but, having benefitted from many hundreds of transfers from Lloyds, they are off.

Neat business practice in the modern style, you might say.

It looks as though the Lloyds horsebox in the car park on Tuesdays, inadequate though it is, is to be the last across-the-counter link with the banking world in Dartmouth.

As the last, this might be said to have a future, but I would not bet on it.

Brian Parker

Crossparks, Dartmouth