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Britons finding it easier to manage budgets and monitor spending using notes and coins

As cost of living bites, people are turning to notes and coins to manage their budget on a week-by-week or even day-by-day basis

Post Offices handled a record £3.45 billion in cash in August but the figure fell to £3.35 billion in September.

Our guide to how everyone who pays for their energy using a PAYG meter will get the discount every month until next March

Historic Shortfall Scheme covers those who paid back to avoid prosecution when Horizon accounting system faults hit

Mairi Hilton will live and work on Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island, taking up a role as a wildlife monitor, one of the most remote jobs in the world, spending five months without running water or a flushing toilet.

The old notes cannot be spent in shops or used in business transactions and will not even be accepted by most banks

My first London address was a two-bed on the 13th-floor of Lillingston House, a white and grey tower on a social housing scheme tucked into the footfall of Arsenal’s ground. I’d moved from my native Manchester. You could see the Post Office tower from the living-room window, a glaring daily…

The Bank of England’s paper £20 and £50 notes will not be valid to spend in shops or to pay businesses

Paper banknotes have been around for more than 300 years, but will cease to be legal tender after September 30

The old £20 and £50 notes will not be legal tender come October