Bye bye paper fivers: shops to stop accepting old £5 notes

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Apr 7, 2008
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Guardian Consumer Affairs
New polymer notes featuring Sir Winston Churchill complete their takeover on Friday as old ones cease to be legal tenderAre you ready for “£5.05.05.17”, as the Bank of England has snappily dubbed it? Friday 5 May is when paper £5 notes officially cease to be legal tender, and the plastic fiver...
Bye bye paper fivers: shops to stop accepting old £5 notes (external link to Guardian Consumer Affairs)