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A HALFPENNY

... HALFPENNY A LIBELLED author was awarded 2p damages by a High Court jury yesterday. The nominal award is the first in the new currency—and it cost writer Stephen Vizinczey about £13.000 to get it. That is the bill he faces in costs. The judge. Mr. Justice ...

Published: Tuesday 11 May 1971
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 287 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HINE

... Dept 703/051 20 St. Ann's Crescent, London SWIB 2LT lease send me SOLO adding machine/s @ £3.85 plus 15p p&p plus FREE new-currency calculator. I enclose cheque/P.0., for £ I understand that if I am not fully satisfied with the SOLO adding machine, I ...

Published: Tuesday 11 May 1971
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 172 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE kessinctos WEST ES FRIDAY OCTOBER Youll feel more home with Gas central heating Centra) starts at And a recipe

... time counting 2 5 '7J 10 Ask for sixpeaces your change Make traders realise they have use it Finally word of warning the new currency a flood of foreign coins is circulating and when you get one you will probably the loser Watch for ’two bobs’ and bobs’ ...

Tree slices bus in two

... Barnstaple. Devon. and Christchurch Hants Chimneys were blown That is the outcome for Britain of the dollar devaluation and the new currency exchange rates hammered out in Washington at the weekend by the Group of Ten—the West's That is good for our imports of ...

Published: Monday 20 December 1971
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 479 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

a Royal Year

... had been mainly **swallowed up by local traders. who had operated fairly while customers were still bewildered with the new currency. These are a few of the issues that made headlines in the Count• Times in a year that. in brief. went something like this: ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1971
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 599 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

TO COIN A PHRASE

... fi pence or five shudder, shudder — the habit of saying The Dots Board retirement without call its damned bits the new currency had has been left to pu last sortie into the was the creation of telly —to decide change will finally Five pee, ...

Published: Monday 10 January 1972
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 98 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

By JOHN HUSBAND

... up the unwanted dollars before the panic rush subsided. Flooded Dealers warned that the speculators were unleashing a . new currency crisis which only joint action by governments can halt. In London, investors flooded the bullion market with orders for ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1973
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 132 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Tuppence coloured

... the two bob-hit. and the dear old tanner have anished for ever. Ten-bob-bit Trouble is. if you start using old names for new currency. future generations arc going to wonder what a bob is. and why ten of them make a hit. What is needed is a whole new set ...

Published: Tuesday 26 June 1973
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 284 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

happened —Gaetano

... economic programme. Both the £ and the dollar slumped on world money markets yesterday, facing British tourists with a new currency crisis. ...

Published: Thursday 19 July 1973
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 465 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR ON

... find to pay for the unwieldy farm system—and which must be raised by a supplementary budget SMALL CHANGE EUROPE gained a new currency last week—the Eurco, worth about 50p. At first it will be used only by bankers to float loans. But later holidaymakers ...

Published: Monday 17 September 1973
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 25 | Tags: none