COMPANY boss Ian Sultana hit back at the NatWest Bank with a doorstep protest. The managing director's one-man demonstration took place outside the King William Street branch, Blackburn. He claimed a change in the bank's lending policy resulted in his firm, Taylor Doors, going out of business.

Former finance chief Peter Clowes was convicted of eight counts of fraud and 10 of theft.

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