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Consumers are racing to exchange their old paper banknotes for new plastic versions, just over a fortnight before they cease to be legal tender at the end of September. The Bank of England has warned ...

About £6.6bn in old banknotes has not been cashed in across the UK, even though the paper £20 and £50 stopped being legal tender in October 2022. Paper banknotes have been replaced with plastic notes ...

Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have found that the virus responsible for Covid-19, can survive for up to 28 days on common surfaces including banknotes, mobile phone ...

The Bank of England has revealed plans for an ambitious makeover of British currency, ditching today’s cotton pulp banknotes for those of the polymer variety as early as 2016. A two month consultation ...