NatWest profits as customers lose out

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• NatWest made bumper profits of £5.1bn in 2022, increased the bonus pool for its bankers from £298m to £367m and gave its CEO a 46% pay rise to £5.2m (NatWest accused of ‘unjust’ profiteering after CEO paid £5.2m, 17 February). So why is it closing its branch in our market town on 1 March, leaving customers 9 miles from the nearest NatWest?
Ann Newell
Thame, Oxfordshire

• After reading that Boris Johnson may be buying a £4m manor house in Oxfordshire (Report, 17 February), I was amused to see on my Ordnance Survey map that the area hosts a donkey sanctuary. How fitting.
Philip Davies
Winchester

• I was surprised to read that the prosecco-and-strawberry flavour porridge bought for Valentine’s Day remained untouched (Letters, 17 February). Surely it represented classic oat cuisine?
Adrian Brodkin
London

• A mother came to see if my reception class would be suitable for her son, who accompanied her. “I don’t know what you’re going to do with him,” she said. “He’s a little bugger for swearing” (Letters, 13 February).
Janet Mansfield
Aspatria, Cumbria

• The first lawnmower of spring (Letters, 15 February)? No wonder I’ve got the first hayfever of spring, with sore eyes and a runny nose.
Dr Sam Brier
Pinner, London

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