LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish banknotes, widely spurned by shops south of the border, should be legally protected in England, the Liberal Democrats say. "It is ironic that many shops and businesses in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland will print its next generation of Scottish banknotes on plastic paper, rather than the traditional cotton. RBS, which is the second biggest issuer of ...

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It is an age-old gripe of Scots - from Judy Murray to one man who tried to report it as a hate crime. Go in to a shop in England and try to pay with a banknote issued north of the border, but get told ...

A female astronomer and mathematician who played a vital role in the discovery of the planet Neptune—at a time when women’s participation in the sciences was discouraged—will become the first woman ...

My colleague Tim Worstall argues correctly that an independent Scotland would still be able to use the pound if it chose. Just as the US has no power to prevent Panama, Ecuador and even Zimbabwe using ...

I had a Scottish £20 note in my wallet which I received from a cash machine while recently north of the border. I tried to use it in a shop when I returned to England, but the shopkeeper said they ...

Mary Somerville, the Scottish mathematician and science writer, will become the first woman other than a member of the royal family to appear on a Scottish banknote. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) ...

Bank of Scotland today announced that its next £5 and £10 banknotes will be printed on polymer, and the first of these will be issued this November to celebrate the bank’s partnership with BBC ...