Athens cashpoint queues lengthen in face of week-long bank closures

Following news banks will remain closed until after Sunday 5 July referendum, people all over the city are desperate to access their money

All over Athens they were queuing, but the lines outside the National Bank branches were by some distance the longest - because the National Bank supplies the banknotes, and lots of other Greek banks, by midnight on Sunday, had no more of those.

"People are feeling very concerned " very insecure," said Maria Poulimeniou, outside the National Bank on Eleftherios Venizelos street in Kallithea, a southern Athens suburb.