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More jobs face axe at Lloyds Banking

25.08.09

Another 200 jobs are going at Lloyds Banking Group. The merged High Street giant has ordered redundancies at the LloydsTSB and HBOS general insurance operations.

Analysts reckon 30,000 jobs could be gone once the LloydsTSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland businesses are fully integrated after their merger last year.

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