Customers of Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland were unable to access their apps or online banking services for several hours today.

Lloyds Banking Group, which has 26 million customers, started experiencing problems just after 11am this morning.

A spokesperson said early this evening that “all our services are back up and running” after customers took to social media to vent their frustrations that the problems had persisted throughout the afternoon.

Having apologised for the inconvenience caused, Lloyds advised those who were still experiencing issues to “please leave it a few minutes and try again”.