ROYAL Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group have apologised after customers attempting to find out if their wages had gone into their accounts before the Bank Holiday were hit by separate glitches.

RBS Group said customers of its brands NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank had problems logging into its mobile banking app for around six hours.

It is the second time in just over two months the part-taxpayer-owned bank has suffered problems with its app before a weekend. In March, people attempting to check their pay was in their accounts were locked out with the bank blaming it on record numbers attempting to access the device.

In an unconnected incident, Lloyds Banking Group said a "small number" of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers were affected by an IT issue which meant they had trouble accessing payments.

The Lloyds issue related to telephone and internet banking only and lasted for around an hour and-a-half yesterday morning.

RBS said in a statement: "Some customers may have had trouble getting into mobile banking today between 08.40-14.30. All services are back up and running as normal. We apologise for the inconvenience."

A spokesman for Lloyds said: "We are aware that a small number of customers experienced issues accessing payments this morning. The issue has been rectified and we are working with those who were affected."

RBS customer, Calvin Merry, of Sheffield, tweeted: "RBS need to sort their mobile app out, it's such a pain when it doesn't work."