Data, Schmater...a current account ..then they take most of the money it makes to run it @ the end of a year you`re £30 better off. The £1k is going into Premium bonds
A few months ago I had a bit over 7K in an e-banking savings account. A year ago I would have got about £40 or so interest per month. This year, after tax, I got £1.87 for the month of June. Well worth the effort!
You can still find some pretty good rates (not as good as a couple of years ago but not all that much worse) you just have to lool for them and sometimes go for the medium term fixed rate deals.