Video: The UK's First Vertical Bank Note

The UK's first vertically printed banknote became legal currency today, and it's described as the "biggest shake-up to consumer cash wallets inover 40 years".

Northern Ireland's Ulster Bank is one of seven in the UK that can issue sterling as legal currency. It switched production of its £5 and £10 notes topolymer, making them more secure and durable, but it also printed them with a vertical design.

Armed with the new notes I took to the streets of London to find out what shoppers and small business owners thought of the strange looking cash.

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'Monopoly money': testing out the UK'sfirst vertical bank note (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/monopoly-money-testing-uks-first-vertical-bank-note/)