Lloyds underlines recovery with higher dividend and profits
UK lender is on course to return to full private ownership after years in government hands
Photography - Ben Philips
Lloyds Banking Group handed a special dividend to its shareholders after reporting that pre-tax profits more than doubled in 2016.
The lender, nursed to health by chief executive António Horta-Osório, has sold international operations and focused on the UK retail banking market after being stung by the acquisition of HBOS amid the financial crisis.