Is this the end of 1p and 2p coins? Royal Mint abandons around £4million worth of copper coins in warehouses across the UK as Treasury officials consider scrapping coppers altogether

By Tash Mosheim Published: 19:55 EDT, 25 August 2024 | Updated: 20:03 EDT, 25 August 2024 The Royal Mint has abandoned around £4million worth of copper coins in warehouses across the UK. Roughly 260 million excess 1p and 2p coins are sitting in cash centres, outnumbering those currently in circulation. …

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Kent weekly round-up: 17 August

DODE CHURCH/MATT JAMES Both Dode and Paddlesworth in the North Downs were thriving settlements until the plague hit in 1349 Man recalls seeing Hitler in Vienna on birthday BBC/MARK NORMAN Mr Farago was taken to Brussels on Kindertransport trains, which took children out of Nazi-controlled areas to safer territory A …

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Christmas postcard delivered 121 years after being mailed

Article content As Canadian poet laureate Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip famously sang, “You are ahead by a century.” Article content He certainly wasn’t singing about an undelivered postcard that finally arrived some 121 years after it was first sent off by mail. The Christmas-themed card was recently delivered …

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