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 ...

The Bank of England (BoE) has launched a public consultation on new themes for the next generation of British banknotes, ...

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Anyone with eyes to see knows that pubs, restaurants and coffee bars are suffering. In every direction when I drive from my own house in the country, I pass a shuttered or converted pub within a ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Texas woman is facing federal drug charges after U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than 20 pounds of cocaine from her rental vehicle at a highway checkpo… ...

The current International Game Fish Association 20-pound line world record for African pompano is a 39-pound, 5-ounce fish caught in April 1985 by Karen Hogan near Fort Pierce, Florida. “I pray for ...

Image via Shutterstock A Florida woman ended up hooking a potential record breaker using just a 20-pound line while fishing off St. Augustine. The fish is poised to break a 40-year-old record ...

Object Details issuing authority Central Bank of Egypt Description (Brief) One (1) 20 pound note Egypt, 2001 Obverse Image: Mosque of Muhammad Ali. Obverse Text: [NEEDS TRANSLATION] Reverse Image: A ...

UK banknotes have evolved dramatically, from paper to polymer and from Shakespeare’s debut in 1970 to modern figures like Alan Turing. As the Bank prepares to introduce King Charles’ portrait on the ...

We explain what to do with old £20 and £50 notes as they are no longer legal tender in the UK — plus where you can exchange them for new polymer banknotes ...

Three people, including a teenage boy, were arrested amid warnings of fake £20 notes circulating in parts of the north. The three, two men aged 39 and 20 and the 15-year-old teenager, were ...