JHLewis commented Nottingham prepared for new quid on the block

A mother from Top Valley approached the check-out at Superdrug's Nottingham store and offered to buy cosmetics worth £6.42. But a shop assistant noticed something odd about her six £1 coins. They had unusually rough edges.The assistant alerted the manager. The customer, a 41-year-old unemployed single mother, had left the Clumber Street store but the manager followed her and brought her back. Police were called and in a search of the woman's home they found 228 similar coins in a...