WESTERN Isles MSP Alasdair Allan has hit out at the Royal Bank of Scotland for again U-turning on the issue of whether Barra will retain a cash machine after the summer of 2018.
RBS announced the Castlebay branch would close in the summer and that this would also involve withdrawing the cash machine.
The follow day, the MSP was given assurance from RBS that this was an error, and that the cash machine would be retained. On Monday morning the MSP received a letter from RBS CEO of personal and business banking Les Matheson in response to his concerns about the effect the branch closure would have on the island community. RBS stated that ‘regrettably, we won’t be retaining the ATM once the branch closes’.