If I'm wrong, I'm going to look like an idiot, but living in Jersey where we use our own banknotes as well as those from the UK, I should've got this earlier. The new design of notes introduced in 2010 were printed on linen as opposed to paper. In Jersey we still use paper and on notes of the same age them being printed on different materials isn't immediately obvious on sight, but the feel definitely is.
Old notes used to be incinerated (thanks to an episode of New Tricks for that info) but that's now deemed to be environmentally unfriendly so they are now shredded and used as an ingredient in agricultural compost. Which will all change again when the Bank of England follows Australia's lead and starts to use plastic notes.
Politicians have often been considered by many as being capable of some pretty nefarious deeds - one in particular is known to have cut the skull out of a dead man's body and replace it with the skull of another - as well as cutting off the man's hands and feet. Who was the politician, who was the dead man and, for a bonus point, why did he do what he did?
Is it this story of the Hobart, Tasmania politician Crowther and the aborigine Lanne? http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/158.pdf Is so pretty gruesome...
Well done Yorkie - I honestly thought that would take a bit longer. And yes - a gruesome tale. Interesting that, in the link you posted, it mentioned that King Billy's skull was thought to be in Edinburgh, but tests disproved that - a few years ago, the 'Edinburgh head' was returned to Tasmania having been proven that it was. Over to you...
I thought this was standard behaviour in Australian politics in the past? Things have changed now - this only happens amongst members of the same party.
