Barclays IT glitch locks customers out of accounts for almost 24 hours

Outage comes on HMRC's deadline day for settling self-assessment tax returns and a pay day for many workers

A serious IT glitch has left some Barclays customers locked out of their accounts throughout the night and almost 24 hours on from the bank's initial outage.

Barclays has apologised to customers and said it was currently facing intermittent errors" with its payment system. We're working to fix this as quickly as possible," it said.