Cheltenham and Gloucester branch will be closed, a loss of about 1000 job opportunities.
70-year-old Margaret commissioned her Czaplinska Cheltenham and Gloucester savings; as a girl, she will be a few cents to her account, when she grew up, she maintained her wages.
Today, she was frustrated and disappointed with the news, in the company’s C & G branch network is close. “This will affect me in a big way, said,” Czaplinska, 80. “I come here every week to do our banking.
“What will happen? I have tilt them, because I was a girl. There are many ‘do not know’ today when you asked them what happened. This is the damage.”
The early summer sunshine, a quiet Cheltenham do not feel like a small town into a difficult period. Tourists stroll in Regent Street and Victoria cafes and restaurants gathered Montpellier region.
However, outside the company C & G branch in High Street, some people worry and suspicion.
75-year-old Brown, a relatively new compared to customers (only 40 years old) said that he worried that his money is not safe now. “I guess it is when you do not quite understand, this is a cause for concern. I can get it the same way we did not need to Lloyd? I do not know.”
58-year-old painter, designer and client is only 15 years, is taking more steps he announced. But he can not understand why the town of shock. “This is because of the Crimean War, it is no wonder it was a surprise. But you must accept these things, these are very difficult economic times,” he said.
Staff and their families worried and shocked by the blockade, the rumors have been spread by the media to confirm the week, rather than management.
Dozens of complaints Gloucestershire Echo website thisisgloucestershire how they handled. One wrote: “I do not think my job is safe, even though they told me, because I think I have been lying before us. The acquisition of HBOS, and after the loss, but also means that these ç & G declined to take the company’s workers . Have any of the fat cats to give up the money? ”
Another wrote: “My son, his wife and son-in-law are worried about the future today, they stand together, their work. I can not imagine what the impact of severe, will lead to two families of young children . “