IN response to A G Ruffhead (Echo, letters) can I say that there was a lot work and petitions to try to keep the last bank in Highcliffe open.

We had write-ups in the Bournemouth Echo and the Daily Telegraph.

I have a collection of approximately 50 e-mails to and from Nat West and their response was that there was only a three minute difference for customers using the Highcliffe branch and Christchurch.

Apart from a sit-in at the bank on closing day I don’t think a lot more could have been done to achieve our aims.

CLLR TRISH JAMIESON, Treeside, Highcliffe