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Full list of Lloyds and Halifax banks shutting this month and into 2027

File photo dated 29/05/18 of branch of Lloyds Bank on Oxford Street, London.
Lloyds Banking Group is planning to close 250 locations by the end of 2027 (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed plans to shut more UK high street branches as part of a move to close 250 locations in 2026 and 2027.

More than 20 Lloyds Bank branches shut in October, while a further 31 locations were closed across the country earlier in the year.

Rise of the ‘schooligans’: how a wave of antisocial behaviour threatens non-league football

Teenage ultras are increasingly causing disorder and communities fear it will not be long before it becomes something more dangerous

It is five past three on Saturday afternoon and the teenage ultras of Hednesford Town are running late. They have arrived in Chester for their team’s National League North fixture and have hailed taxis, determined to make their presence felt at the ground.

What’s the point? Ten years after the Paris treaty, are climate talks getting anywhere?

Its key temperature goal has been missed but experts say the agreement is still proving a vital moral compass for progress

It was a curious way of conducting negotiations. Ahead of the 2025 climate summit, in the Amazonian port of Belém last year, the Brazilian hosts had taken off the table the issue that most had assumed would be at its heart: concrete plans from each country laying out exactly what they would be doing to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

‘My thought was always: he will be killed next’: Sonia Gandhi on marrying into an Indian political dynasty and her husband’s assassination

She came from humble Italian origins to join India’s ruling family. Then both her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, and her husband, Rajiv, were brutally murdered. In a rare interview, the politician talks about her reluctant rise to power, Narendra Modi’s repressive regime – and why youth protests give her hope for the future

• Read an exclusive extract from Sonia Gandhi’s memoir here

For a woman who has been a witness to some of the most significant political moments in modern Indian history, Sonia Gandhi likes to insist her life has been far from remarkable.