Madam,

The fact that our communities need a bank as well as an ATM was very well made in the letters page by K Williams (‘Banks are needed’, last week’s Cambrian News).

Trying to make deposits of our cash, whether you are a business or a worker, is a bankless task in many of our towns.

Our high streets across the region have seen one bank after another close down and we also see our privatised Royal Mail service under threat, with post office closures taking place too. I can understand why K Williams says that it should be law to have a back on each high street - not a bad idea.

I think that Labour’s pledge to change the law so that banks can’t close a branch where there is a clear local need seems to be good way forward. But that doesn’t help places like Barmouth, Harlech, Blaenau, etc, where the banks have already gone.

So it seems that Labour’s plan to bring back the Post Office into public ownership and to have a Post Bank run through the post office network, creating up to 3,600 Post Bank branches, could give our high streets the firm base they deserve.

I hope that is a plan that meets with K Williams’ reasonable expectations.

Yours etc, Graham Hogg, Barmouth.

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