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RBS to shed 2600 insurance and retail banking jobs

First Minister Alex Salmond is to hold urgent talks with the Royal Bank of Scotland after it announced it was to cut 2,600 insurance and banking jobs over the next year.

Mr Salmond is to meet RBS chief executive Stephen Hester as the Scottish Government raised concerns that the announcement had not been given “proper sensitivity”.