... coins you've grown to love will'circulate still—in decreasing numbers. And once you've made the switch you'll find the new currency easier to calculate, lighter to handle. Give the new pennies a chance to drop and you'll wonder how you managed without ...

... Thursday, Ocio b er e ■ rillHE bigger the field the bigger the certainty this ancient maxim for punters was given new currency as Hidden Meaning slammed forty-five Cambridgeshire rivals at Newmarket yesterday. Backed from 50-1 when the ante - post ...

... accounting machines will have to be converted. Added to this is the cost of rewriting text books, refraining laws, minting new currency. and perhaps printing new banknotes. Chosen Chairman of the committee is to be Lord Halsbury, 53, a Governor of the BBC ...

... GOOD TO GO IT A LOAN BRITONS can soon gain a slice of the euro action by taking out home loans in the new currency. Abbey National and Barclays Bank are preparing euro mortgage accounts with interest rates of 4.75 per cent. The average on a standard variable ...

... weight of the ip and I new penny) and the 2p (two new pence) %yill he introduced minted and they are expected of old and new currency. to disappear fairly quickly. But it will be easier, as time pay for a Is. 3d. item by offer- four timers the weight of ...

... in 2002 to see how difficult the change will be. But it expects to take just two years to swop from using pounds to the new currency The Government is insisting it has not changed its policy and that it is still sticking to Chancellor Gordon Brown's prepare ...

... money. And after it is introduced in February, 1971, it will probably be another two years before the nation is using the new currency only. CONTEST TO FIND THE NEW DESIGNS Money will still have pounds and pence although, for the first couple of years, the ...

... Europe is catapulted on to the world's financial map. It is no longer possible to turn back. The Euro is irreversible. The new currency was a triumph for consumers, Mr Santer said, eliminating exchange rate costs, ending financial speculation, improving price ...

... head of the European Central Bank, which will run single currency interest rate policy, said: Today's decision means a new currency for almost 300 million people in 11 countries. But the euro is far more than a medium of exchange it gives identity to ...

... shoppers yesterday. Betty, with hundreds of her neighbours, was taking part in a rehearsal for the changeover to the new currency system which takes place in two years' time. They went shopping by courtesy of Mr. Mike Clarke, the first shopkeeper to ...

... ban in protest against a tWo-year delay in settling their pay demands. The ban has alre a d y affected several orders for new currency, _mainly from overseas. The engravers' pay rates at preserit range from £9BB a year to £1,600: They are asking for rises ...

... industry vino wante the new currency bas on a smaller 10s. uni divided into 100 cents b cause it would be mo convenient. Date Mr. Callaghan said also that he is keeping to February 1, 1971, as the date for bringing in the new currency. He said that he will ...