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DVLA refunding VED payments by cheque when you SORN.

The Bank of England only exchanges Bank of England notes. The Royal Mint doesn't have a public-facing exchange point. 6 months ago, I deposited some old £1 coins in the automated coin machines in a Natwest branch. Most other banks will accept them in branch for deposit to an account over the...

In Australia, the KC3 $1 is reasonably common now and the $2 slightly less so, but they often come from mint rolls/bags (i.e. businesses are giving out fresh coins they've bought from their bank). I've only seen one KC3 20c and none of the other cent denominations in the wild, though I haven't...

The paper Scottish £100s from all three banks were red, but only BOS issued a polymer £100 which is blue. The paper £100s are meant to be banked only. I don't think any merchant would accept them now, even for an amount close to £100, whereas they should accept the polymer £100 in that scenario.

At the risk of embarrassing myself shouldn't this be line E?

For future reference, wave any sort of 2D barcode at the guy in the ticket office and they will open the gates. If they aren't there the barriers should be left open.

Can you be sure the equivalent orange rectangle would have opened the gates? My experiences at Leeds are the opposite: e-tickets have always worked but orange rectangles occasionally didn't.

If such a scenario were to occur, the UKBF +/- local police forces could choose to send officers to do checks at ROI/NI road borders as well as ferry ports (yes even on GB to NI ferries, where I was once racially profiled for a check) and to meet flights arriving in GB from Ireland. Hotels...

Do EU citizens living in another EU country generally get to claim benefits on the same basis as citizens?

Yeah that is true for about half of the world, but it's a trade-off you have to make when you choose to move to the UK. I may have more sympathy if the originating country previously permitted multiple citizenship, then started forbidding it after one had already migrated to the UK - but I...

For now, it's still a tick box exercise. If you've actually been living in the UK and you haven't committed any crimes it is basically guaranteed. The longer you leave it, the more expensive it will get. If Reform becomes the governing party, I am sure they will also make it more difficult.

In the case of Denmark (and your experience in Leipzig) the merchant probably doesn't care since the fee only affects a minority of customers, most of whom are unlikely to return. In the case of Australia, most merchants which pass on card fees still accept cash, or in some cases bank transfer...

As mentioned, interchange fees are capped in the EU and UK, and the amount skimmed off by Visa and Mastercard comes out of this, so it's not the case that V/MC can take however much they want. The interchange fee is what the merchant's bank pays the customer's bank. But this is only part of the...

On my recent trip to Denmark, I paid by cash everywhere as I could not be sure I wouldn't be charged this fee. Perhaps surprisingly, I had no problems spending cash and there was no reluctance by any merchant to accept cash. The only mild hiccup was near to Copenhagen H just before my train to...

Also had two different teams do a check within 10 mins of each other on my last trip out of Paris Est, until someone asked why he was being checked again.

I got checked in a bus in the middle of nowhere and 2 Danes were caught; on a Lokaltog I also saw a fare evader hiding from revenue inspectors in the toilet. I can't answer the OP as on my most recent trips to Prague and Budapest I was only checked once in each city over 3 days each.

If it is decided that your fingerprints need to be checked again, they can force you to go to a kiosk or a staffed booth.

I've only ever had one blank out of perhaps 30-40 free tickets.

Or conversely Scotrail only needs to catch them 25% of the time to be paid the amount they want to be.

I've lived next to various busy railways for about 8 years of my life and I wouldn't do so again. So if I was forced to choose somewhere it would be along a PSUL route. It might only have one train a day late at night, or maybe no trains at all for months or years, then be very busy during a...