It is that a bank with branches on every corner seems safer than one with only a few, even if the deposits of both are guaranteed by the government.

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Lloyds will warrant that a few million customers will move with their branches to the new owner.

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What we now have a most unusual situation - a bank in Scotland with profits in freefall despite previous attempts at gutting expenses, comparatively few branches and soon to become fewer, effectively little more than an financial call centre with a few cheque cashing shops and a couple of trendy business centres.

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And as we all know, only after a few short months at home, the Comfort is back in Haiti, along with many other branches of our military, delivering aid with their civilian counterparts, helping the Haitian people, and all the while showing the very best of America and making us all so proud.

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