News Archive 2024

On 12 August, the change to “cashless” Railway Station Car Parking in Kent - this “progress” - was inevitably going to be imposed by Southeastern Railway on 19 August. Then it was stopped. One strong letter to a Government Minister from the Payment Choice Alliance meant that “cashless” hit the buffers! Those - the Majority of us - who refuse to accept the impo....

Wendy Chamberlain, the Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife, is absolutely correct. On 18 September, more than six years after Natalie Ceeney and her team started work on their “Access to Cash Review”, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules come into force regarding banks assessing the impact of future branch closures BEFORE closing the branches - and, potentially, keeping branche....

Interesting figures from Post Office Ltd Only £900 million of the £3.7 billion of British post office cash activity in July 2024 was cash withdrawals. The rest was business and personal cash deposits. Underlines the lack of deposit alternatives for the British public and businesses. That said, with the value of ATM transactions resilient, despite the continuing reduction in the UK A....

Our Chair, Ron Delnevo, was on Radio Kent at 7.20AM on 12 August, talking to Anna Cookson about the disgraceful decision of Southeastern Railway to impose “cashless” parking on Railway Stations in Kent. Let’s hope Steve White, MD of Southeastern Railway, got the wake up call! Steve takes over £1 million EVERY day in taxpayers subsidy and then goes completely off the rails ....

A classic situation. Towns in Oxfordshire starved of cash access and also some businesses refusing to accept cash. Witney still has bank branches but, with a population of only 30,000, is unlikely to keep them. The cash access measures outlined recently by the Financial Conduct Authority are clearly inadequate. Equally, the fact that no measures have so far been taken to guarantee cash acceptan....