Originally Posted by
jedikiah
I spent a Clydesdale £10 note in a supermarket in Portsmouth where the cashier needed to check with the manager and after being told it was perfectly fine to take later handed it to the person behind in their change and was told then not to. He looked doubly bemused.
Although English and Scottish notes are accepted throughout the UK I believe the banks in both countries generally return them to the issuing bank.
Wasn't that the loot the Great Train Robbers were after?