13-09-2016 18:47 via uk.news.yahoo.com

BoE's Carney curries favour with new five pound note

The Bank of England introduced its first plastic banknote on Tuesday, with Governor Mark Carney dipping one of them into a bubbling container of chicken curry to prove its greater durability. The new five pound notes, which feature World War Two leader Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth, will trickle through to cash machines and banks in England and Wales over the coming weeks. At a London street market, Carney tried to prove the point by ordering a chicken wrap at a food stall, then dipping
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