Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, is to close four offices in the U.K. with the loss of 990 jobs. The cuts are part of the 15,000 announced last year, the London-based bank said in a statement today. Lloyds hopes to redeploy some people, the company said.

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