The number of bank branch closures in the UK over the last nine years has hit 6,000, according to new research from Which?. Britain’s high streets have been hit by an “avalanche” of closures with million of people being in need for replacement banking services, the consumer watchdog found. Which? noted that today’s eight branch closures from Barclays took the number of banks shutting down to 6,005. This figure is the equivalent of 60 per cent of the bank branch network since the consumer champion began keeping track of closures in 2015. So far, Barclays has closed 1,216 branches in the last ni…
