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Cash Isn't Going Down Without a Fight in Digital U.K.
Campaigners want the legal right to pay with notes and coins
Customers queue to use automated teller machines on the concourse at Liverpool Street rail station in London, U.K.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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A defense of cash is now being mounted in the U.K.
With about 5 percent of the adult population of Britain still reliant on notes and coins for almost all their day-to-day payments, campaign group Positive Money is calling on the government to enshrine consumers right to pay with cash and protect ATMs from closure.