Losses at Ulster Bank have increased in the first three months of this year as the bank continues to write off vast sums due to the property crash.

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Those sums are due to fall soon, when a temporary boost expires.

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It threatens to undermine their plans to make a steady and systematic reduction in the level of debt outstanding as repaying of coupon and maturing sums fall due.

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