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I'm Michelle Hussein.

Our pieces this time include a 1500 year old saint on a sand dune in Cornwall.

Why a sports journalist is finding himself wondering about pride in an English sense of fair play and whether it might have been lost for good.

We're thinking about the forthcoming abolition of tolls on the River Seven Crossings

and how they might change Welsh border country and the geography lessons sparked by a

humble kitchen worktop.

First to the west of Scotland and the picturesque town of Inverary on the western shore of Loch Fine.

Its castle is the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Argyle and the tourism and activities it promotes, along with other businesses, underpin the local economy.

But one long-standing anchor of the main street, the remaining bank branch is now under threat.

Previous bank closures across Scotland went through without too much fuss.

But Douglas Fraser, BBC Scotland's business and economy editor, has been thinking about

the effect on a town and its people.

Donald Clark is off to France soon. From there broadband enabled him to keep an eye on business back home.

He's the fifth generation of Clarks in 160 years owning and running the Georgia Tell on the main street of Inverary.

He tells me this here in France he's going to keep an eye on business across the road at

the Royal Bank of Scotland.

That's because he's one of the main figures fighting

to stop the closure of the Banks Village Branch. The Georgia Tell and the Clark

Dynasty have banked with it for more than a century. He reckons local businesses, including hotels,

the Loch Fine Oyster Bar and the Duke of Argyll's castle, put 7 million pounds through its

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