Clydesdale Bank announced yesterday that it will be closing its Rosyth branch along with 40 others across Scotland. 

The closure will take place on June 16. 

Around 200 jobs are at risk because of the closures but Dunfermline's High Street branch is safe.

Sister business Yorkshire Bank will also slash another 39 branches in the UK.

The bank said since 2011 the number of customers using high street branches for day-to-day transactions had fallen by a third. 

Gavin Opperman, Customer Banking Director, Clydesdale Bank, said: "While the decision to close any branch is never an easy one, it is important that we, in line with other banks operating in the UK market, continue to respond to changes in the way customers want to bank with us.

"The changes announced today continue our journey towards a model that combines an enhanced digital platform with a right sized branch network; allowing customers to interact with us through a wide range of channels – mobile, online, telephone, in-branch – whenever and however they want."

The bank said it would try to find roles for front-line branch staff either within other branches or elsewhere in the bank wherever possible. 

It added: "There will inevitably be employee number reductions as a result of these changes.

"We anticipate that around 200 Clydesdale Bank staff will be at risk of redundancy and subject to our redeployment process.

"All employees affected by these changes will be fully supported through the process."

The Bank will be working with customers to support them through the change.