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The Ammanford businessman who is on a hunger strike protest about Lloyds Bank has decided to suspend his fast. Alun Richards, 47, called a temporary halt to his hunger strike at the weekend. “It is a reasonable response to the fact that we have been able to make some progress in our talks with Lloyds Bank,” said Mr Richards. “The hunger strike has been suspended, but I may restart it if I find that Lloyds do not continue to make progress.” Mr Richards has been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks as part of his dispute with Lloyds Bank. Progress was made last Monday when Mr Richards visited the Lloyds Bank headquarters in Gresham Street, London, demanding to see the Lloyds chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio. “We didn’t get to see the top man, but we did get to see Matt Young, the operations director. I was happy with the way that meeting went and, since then, there have been further meetings with Lloyds Bank executives at home in South Wales.” Mr Richards built up a multi-million bu...

The Ammanford businessman who is on a hunger strike protest about Lloyds Bank is taking his fight to the bank’s London HQ. “If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed will go to the mountain,” said 47-year-old Alun Richards. Mr Richards built up a multi-million business at the expanding Tycroes Business Park near Ammanford. But he claims his life has been ruined by Lloyds after a three-year dispute which has cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds and consequential business losses running into millions. Mr Richards said: “My hunger strike will have been going a week on Monday, so I am taking the battle to the doorstep of Lloyds HQ in London. “I am meeting my MP, Nia Griffith, at the bank’s HQ in Gresham Street at 12 noon with a demand to see the Lloyds chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio. “I feel a meeting with the top man in Lloyds is the only way to resolve this issue. Nia Griffith, the Llanelli MP, is also the Labour Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skill...

An Ammanford businessman is starting a hunger strike today (Monday, March 21) in a protest about Lloyds Bank. “It seems like a radical thing to do, but I am at my wit’s end with Lloyds Bank and can see no other alternative,” said 47-year-old Alun Richards. Mr Richards built up a multi-million business at the expanding Tycroes Business Park near Ammanford “But I am being ruined by Lloyds, a giant banking group who seem not to care about individual businessmen. “As long as the Lloyds big-wigs are collecting their fat cat bonuses and operating in cavalier fashion with no reference to Government supervision, businessmen like me will suffer. “And this is happening even after taxpayers’ funds were injected into the banking economy. “I have been battling Lloyds for three years and it has cost me hundreds of thousands of pounds and consequential losses running into millions. “They are unwilling to deal with my complaint and we are just going around in circles as there seems to be no independen...