The wave of closures of bank branches in the UK continues.
Forty more Halifax and Lloyds outlets south of the border will shut their doors this year as fewer people need physical sites, ' owner Lloyds Banking Group has said.
The switch to online banking has seen branch footfall in those sites drop by over half, it added.
The British banking sector has experienced the closure of thousands of outlets in recent years.
Last July, Lloyds Banking Group said it would close 66 branches between October 2022 and this month.
In its latest announcement, the group said Halifax will close 18 sites, while Lloyds will shut 22 between April and June.
Locations
All but one of the closures are in England, with Halifax also closing a site in Bangor, Wales.
The group said there were no job losses as a result of the move.
The BBC says the number of people using bank services in-person has been falling for years as more people do their banking online.
Lloyds Banking Group said the branches to be closed have seen the number of visits drop dramatically in the last five years.
"Branches play an important part in our strategy but we need to have them in the right places, where they are well-used," a group spokesperson said.
All of the sites due to close have at least one free-to-use cash machine or a Post Office within a third of a mile.
1,227 branches left
Once the closures are complete, Lloyds Banking Group will have 1,277 branches across its Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands.
In November 2021, TSB bank announced it would be shutting 70 sites, while in November 2022 HSBC said that, from April, it would close 114 branches.
Barclays has revealed it would be closing 15 branches in 2023.
There were 8% fewer banks on High Streets across England, Scotland and Wales in March 2022 from a year earlier, according to data from Ordnance Survey.