I have been restoring a ruined castle in Scotland for the past 16 years, so I split my time between Angus, where the castle is, and my house in Oxfordshire.
On returning from Scotland after some months away I found two letters from Nationwide Building Society, one to say that if I did not respond in 60 days it would give all my savings to charity and a second to say that it had given all my money to charity. It said it was authorised to do this because my four accounts had been inactive for 15 years.
I phoned Nationwide and was told that there had been no money in these accounts anyway, however, on checking they found there had been nearly £42,800 in