I raided his piggy bank so he could pay me for a new charger for his phone, he destroys his own then steals mine so I ordered one on ebay for him and made him pay us back. He is 17 he must learn that bank of mum and dad is coming to an end.

I asked in the bank the other day and they had no date set for when the old £20 notes would no longer be legal tender. Even then banks will still swap old notes for new for a considerable time after.

As someone who does a couple of duties a week serving in a shop, I hate these new plastic notes. Once folded you can't flatten them out again and you end up with an unruly pile of notes in the cash till. When I took a pile of notes into the bank the other day to be deposited the clerk on at the desk was struggling to count them as they springing all over the place.