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This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra. Leading Britain's Conversation. You're listening

to our podcast of Steve Allen.

Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Tuesday the 18th of

January. So you heard the end of the saga earlier on with the Royal Bank of Scotland and

we're all good. We're all good to go. It's all been sorted. The ban has been lifted,

which literally takes them a minute.

Literally a minute. It was done by the fraud department because I spoke to the fraud department.

He said, I'm entirely satisfied that this is genuine. I mean, I was tempted to go and I thought, no, there's no, don't antagonize anybody.

So he said, right, it's been lifted. So obviously they just push a button and that was anybody. So he said, right,

it's been lifted.

So obviously they just push a button.

And that was it.

So I phoned my brother.

I said, oh, the good news is it's been lifted.

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