IN August my bank in Canute Square, Knutsford is to close. 

It occupies a superb corner site – is light and airy inside and the staff are friendly, polite and efficient.

Who made this decision?

Who wants to go online or speak to robots and listen to menus?

It is time to bring back the local bank, formed and run by local people who can give a personal service. 

Increasingly the firms that do offer personal service will prosper and the so called efficiency giants will shrivel and die.

Glynn Stockdale Snelson