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
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery gets the comic book. To the tune of Franz von Suppé's "Poet and Peasant" overture, he sprints to a corner of the farm and reads it, noting how much he "love(s) that man!". Imagining what it would be like to be Dick Tracy, he knocks himself out with his own fist. While unconscious, he dreams he is "Duck Twacy, the famous duck-tec-a-tive." He dismisses a series of calls asking about stolen piggy banks as too small for him, suggesting the callers had been too reckless, until he finds that his own piggy bank has been stolen from his safe. He