Lloyds Banking Group, which is 23.9% owned by the British Government, has said it will resume paying dividends to shareholders for the first time since the financial crisis in 2008.
It comes as the company announced a full year statutory profit of 1.8 billion pounds.
Our UK Correspondent Natalie Powell reports…
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