State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland has come under fire once again - this time for making "misleading" promises to be the "last bank in town".

RBS, which is 83pc owned by the taxpayer and is being propped up with billions of pounds of public money, was rapped by the advertising watchdog for the claims made in two television commercials which have now been banned. It follows a torrid few weeks for the bank in which boss Stephen Hester was forced to give up a £963,000 share bonus amid huge political pressure and his predecessor, Fred Goodwin, was stripped of his knighthood for his role in leading the bank to the brink of collapse.

The first, for NatWest, showed staff outside a branch on a deserted coastal road claiming that NatWest would "continue to provide banking services wherever we're the last bank in town". The second commercial, for RBS, featured different characters and settings with a similar script....Read more here--: RBS rapped over 'last bank' advert