... in scare over franc By ROBERT HEAD THE pound was hammered to its lowest level for eleven weeks yesterday as fears of a new currency crisis swept world money markets. Sterling's value in terms of the United States dollar dropped by 5/16th of a cent, to ...

... single currency theme so kids concentrate on monetary union, not Barbie and Ken. ONLY 29 per cent of Brits could name the new currency in a poll. completed in 2002, when British position, of if they their currencies are will join but when they swapped for ...

... marketing and how to train staff will also be tackled. And they will be shown examples of how other firms have adapted to the new currency. By KEVAN REILLY Trade Minister Lord Simon says: It is vital that UK businesses are aware the euro is more than just another ...

... converting pounds, shillings and pence prices into dollars and cents. _ _ Some shopkeepers have even refused to handle the new currency. Others have ordered business machine companies to return their old LSD cash registers, and take away the new decimal currency ...

... Blair will argue that the country must prepare for the euro even though Britain will not be in the first wave to use the new currency when it is launched next January. A Downing Street source said: We must get ready for the single currency, because the ...

... PAGE ONE setting the exchange rate, London will be the place that counts. Mr Blair made it clear the Government wants the new currency to prosper. He wrote in the influential Wall Street Journal: It is in our national interest that the euro succeeds. A ...

... one up on your neighbours i n t h e decimal game—travel by train on Sunday. saving if you work on the difference in the new currency between single and return fares. Where the old single fare was 4s. 6d., it now becomes 22p. The old return f are of 95 ...

... precious metal in them was not worth that much but you didn't argue with Henry if you valued your head. Consquently the new currency got off to a bad start and people have never used the coins as ready money since. Which is a pity because crowns have always ...

... vouchers issued vv by the motoring organisations to help motorists in trouble on the Continent will still be allowed when the new currency restrictions start on November 1. The insurance schemes run by the A A and R A C to cover emergencies abroad will also ...

... the pools companies' Decimal Day. All six big firms are sticking as closely as possible to their existing stakes but the new currency makes exact conversion impossible. Littlewoods are changing their minimum treble chance stake to jp. equivalent to 1.2 ...

... QDOES that mean the pound will disappear? AProbably. There has been a suggestion all countries could continue to call the new currency by the name of their choice, thus keeping alive the mark, the franc and the pound, but changing their value. In the real ...

... according to Rog e Pa yn e, the zoologist whose tape recordings have been incorporated in the composition. Fish tale THERE is a new currency the crime trade: fish. Suddenly fish has become so expensive that clever villains are stealing it in preference to the ...