GRIMSBY BRANCH OF SANTANDER BANK SPARED CLOSURE IN THIS SUMMER'S PROPOSED CULL

                                     

CUSTOMERS and staff at the  Grimsby branch of the Santander Bank can breathe a sigh of relief.

It was  announced this week that, nationwide,  111 branches are to close this summer.

But the Grimsby News has learned that the branch in Top Town is not one of them.

As with other financial institutions, Santander - which closed its Cleethorpes branch some years ago - has been pushing customers to switch to online and mobile banking which now account for two-thirds of transactions.

Branches set for the axe by the end of summer are understood to be those in:

Arnold 

Ashby-de-la-Zouch 

Ashford Church Road 

Balham High Road 

Banstead High Street 

Barking 

Beckenham 

Bethnal Green

Bingley Main Street 

Birmingham Erdington 

Bishopsgate 

Blaby 

Bletchley 

Bramhall 

Brighouse 

Brighton

Bristol

Camberwell 

Castleford 

Catford 

Cheadle 

Chelsea Kings Road 

Chester-Le-Street 

Chingford 

Chiswick 

Chorlton-cum-Hardy 

Clifton

Cobham 

Cosham 

Coulsdon 

Dagenham

Dalkeith 

Dalston 

Darwen 

Dewsbury 

Dudley Merryhill 

Edingburgh Morningside Road 

Enfield Hertford Road 

Finchley High Road 

Fulham 

Glasgow Kilmarnock Road 

Glasgow Sauchiehall St 

Gosforth 

Grays 

Halesowen 

Hanover Square 

Harborne High St 

Harold Hill 

Harpenden

Hatfield 

Hayes Station Rd 

Haywards Heath

Hempstead Valley 

High Holborn 

Hinckley 

Horsforth

Hounslow Bath Road

Huyton 

Hyde Market Place 

Leatherhead 

Leeds Crossgates 

Leicester Horsefair Street 

Leicester Narborough Road 

Leigh-on-Sea

Letchworth 

Leytonstone 

London Bridge

Long Eaton 

Lytham Clifton St 

Margate 

Marlow 

Mill Hill 

Moorgate 

Morecambe

Nelson 

New Malden 

Newcastle-under-Lyme 

Norbury 

Oadby 

Oxford Headington

Petts Wood 

Pinner 

Plymstock 

Poulton-le-Fylde 

Putney

Ricksmansworth 

Runcorn 

Sale 

Shepherd Bush 

South Harrow

Southampton Bitterne Road 

Southhampton Shirley 

Southgate 

Strand

Surbiton 

Swinton 

Syston

Twickenham 

Upper Edmonton 

Walkden 

Wallasey 

Welling

Wembley 

West Wickham

West Worthing 

Weybridge 

Wibsey 

Wickford 

Windsor

Winton 

Wokingham 

Following the closures - which will take place between June and  August - there will be a network of 452 banks remaining. 

Santander has a Spanish parent company, but trades as an independent UK entity.

It also acquired the customers of the Alliance and Leicester when that bank has laid low by the financial crisis of a few years back.