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-Credit:© 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP. The UK Government has confirmed that shops and businesses in England are under no obligation to accept Scottish banknotes as payment for goods or services.

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 ...

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) ...

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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 ...

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 -- Women will feature on both the £5 and the £10 notes from a Scottish bank for the first time when new designs come into circulation. Author Nan Shepherd was revealed as the Royal Bank of ...

In an Open Letter to the Bank of England's governor Andrew Bailey, MoneyWeek has called on the Bank to feature more women on the back of UK banknotes. MoneyWeek's analysis shows that since the bank ...