reynoldsno1
Hi
Not wishing to be seen to advertise (forum police and all that) but since they may be down to banks' individual policies I'll name names - Barclays, and HSBC are quite happy to send ATM cards to us ( Europe) and we hold a couple of UK issued credit cards as well.
As far as new accounts we found Virgin (UK) very good when it came to opening brand new savings accounts...they didn't seem to have any problems with us not having a UK address - don't know if they do Current Accounts though.