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Lloyds, Britain’s biggest high street bank, has granted mortgage holidays to more than 70,000 customers in a little over a week.

That’s one of the first tallies we’ve seen since the chancellor announced that homeowners who came into financial trouble as a result of the outbreak would be given up to three months’ relief on their payments.

Lloyds has also confirmed some new emergency measures for personal banking customers - waiving interest on arranged overdrafts of up to £300 for all customers across its Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches from 6 April.

It follows similar announcements by Barclays this morning.

