Yorkshire Bank took place in the bank's heartland and many miners were customers, having been encouraged by the National Coal Board to have their pay mandated to a bank account. In 1990, the National Australia Bank Group acquired the bank from the consortium of owning banks which, after mergers and acquisitions, were the National Westminster Bank, (holders of 40%), Barclays Bank (32%), Lloyds Bank (20%), and Royal Bank of Scotland (8%). The price paid was £1 billion and the bank joined National Australia Bank's other European businesses, Clydesdale Bank (Scotland) and Northern Bank (which operated in both jurisdictions in Ireland). In May
Piggy (Merrie Melodies) the series would only feature one-shot characters until Egghead debuted. Nevertheless, he continued to appear at the end of every cartoon up to "You're too Careless with Your Kisses!". In 1936, Animator Friz Freleng redesigned Piggy for colour film. Piggy was given lighter, more Caucasian-like colour with distinguishing birthmarks. The redesigned character appeared as a gluttonous child in a large family of pigs in "At Your Service Madame" (which gives his full name as "Piggy Hamhock"), where he leads his fellow siblings in foiling a bum's attempt to rob their mother. A year later he starred in "Pigs Is Pigs"