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Retailers to welcome new polymer banknotes

Future 10 pound and 5 pound banknotes will be printed on polymer, a thin flexible plastic film instead of cotton paper and be in use by 2016, announced The Bank of England earlier this week. This decision was the result of a three-year research programme issued by the Bank studying the materials on which banknotes are printed. The research...

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