Lloyds pledges to help exporters

Lloyds Bank has pledged to help 5,000 '˜first-time' exporters, in an attempt to reverse the country's widening trade deficit.

It aims to help 5,000 firms during 2016 and a total of 25,000 by 2020 contributing to the Government’s goal of helping 100,000 businesses to start trading overseas by 2020.