'I couldn't sleep when I heard the last bank would close'
When 84-year-old Maggie Dodd discovered that the last remaining bank in her town was closing, she began to panic. "I was distraught," she says. "I
When 84-year-old Maggie Dodd discovered that the last remaining bank in her town was closing, she began to panic. "I was distraught," she says. "I mean I couldn't sleep that first night when I realised. I thought what am I going to do?" Maggie has been a customer at the Bank of Scotland in Lochgilphead since 1976.
Now her nearest branch is in Oban, almost an hour's drive - 37.2 miles - away and she's worried about banking online. "I'm frightened," she says. "There's so much of this scamming business, and I'm always worried that I'll hit something and press the wrong thing." That's why she has 'buddied up' with her 83-year-old friend Ina Callander to try banking at the local post office.
"I've been using the post office for years," Ina says. "Maggie was really upset and I thought, why not help her? Because that's what friends
are for."
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