Ammanford businessman on hunger strike
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...