It failures at Lloyds Banking Group has resulted in customers at Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and TSB being left without access to ATMs and debit card services.

A TSB executive said that failures at Lloyds IT servers had resulted in the errors, with Lloyds Banking Group apologising: "We apologise that earlier today, between 3pm and 6pm, some customers were unable to complete their debit card transactions.

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The IT banking failure follows glitches effecting NatWest, RSB and Ulster Bank customers throughout 2013 which prevented the use of online services, use cards or withdraw money.

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