City banking jobs face axe

LLOYDS Banking Group is to shed around 90 jobs in Scotland, most of which will be in Edinburgh.

Across the UK, 570 jobs are to be axed by the group.

A spokeswoman said of the Scottish job losses: "The likelihood is that they will be predominantly in Edinburgh, but there will be some in Glasgow as well. That figure refers to jobs affected, not necessarily the number going to go.

"We would look first at not filling vacancies, redeployment and voluntary redundancy. We would expect redundancies to be a fraction of that number."