When will the penny drop? We don’t need pennies any more

The government shouldn’t have U-turned on scrapping copper coins means –no one would have missed themSkilfully guiding a 2p down the chute of a coin-pushing machine at a Clacton amusement arcade is an abiding childhood memory. So, too, is the high-stakes Christmas card game where we would bet with piles of 1p coins taken from my father’s Bell’s whisky bottle. And of course we should never have stuffed ourselves silly with 1p pink shrimp and 2p spongy banana sweets made fr