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SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson has branded the latest jobs blow from Clydesdale Bank to the North-east as “shameful”.
The MSP was speaking after the Australian-owned bank announced that it was closing its Aberdeenshire service centre and axing nearly 80 jobs from the area, moving the work to an existing centre near Glasgow.
The move comes after the Clydesdale Bank closed over 20 branches across Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray including Portsoy, Cruden Bay, New Deer, Aberchirder and Strichen. Rival bank RBS stepped in and continues to provide a mobile banking service in the communities affected and recently took over the closed New Deer branch and opened a new full time Royal Bank branch, proving the viability of the rural community.
Commenting on the latest withdrawal by the bank, Mr Stevenson said:
“When the Clydesdale Bank announced their mass closure programme last year, we thought that this was the final act in a prolonged period of service cuts and closures. It seems we were wrong.
“This latest announcement is yet another shameful act from a bank which is remotely controlled from furth of Scotland.
“It is symptomatic of an organisation which has lost its way and my thoughts are with those staff who now have the unenviable decision of whether to uproot from the North-east and follow their job south or face redundancy.”
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Karen Adam is now the MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast
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