\n A spokesperson for the pub chain has since apologised for the impact the policy is having on its customers.\n<\/p>\n
\n Eddie Gershon told The Scottish Sun that the banning of Scottish \u00a320 and \u00a350 notes does not apply in Scotland, along with certain towns and cities with close ties to the city.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cWe were notified by the Bank of England last October that a large number of fake Scottish \u00a320 notes were being put into circulation by organised crime gangs.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAdvice was given as to how to identify them \u2014 but with a warning not to accept if in doubt.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis warning, coupled with an increase in the receipt of fake notes by pubs, led to a decision in late November last year not to accept Scottish \u00a320 notes.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n
\n Gershon added: \u201cThis does not apply in Scotland and certain towns and cities with close links to Scotland.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cScottish \u00a350 notes are not accepted for the same reason.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The Wetherspoon spokesperson added that the firm will continue to keep the decision \u201cunder review\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bosses at the bar chain\u00a0reportedly instructed staff not to accept any Scottish \u00a320 and \u00a350 notes from late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-387113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115123370292882660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}