RBS deputy's pension trumps Goodwin payout

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Beleaguered RBS is to pay out a pension even larger than Sir Fred Goodwin's controversial £12.3m retirement pot.

Gordon Pell, deputy chief executive of the bailed-out bank, will receive a pension of £582,000 a year from his £13.58m pot. Pell's pension was increased by £65,000 a year in 2009 according to th...

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