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Published:
April 26, 2009
Shops in Burnham-On-Sea warned over
fake bank notes
 Shops
in Burnham-On-Sea were warned on Saturday (April 25th) to watch
out for fake bank notes circulating in the town.
It
comes after a visitor attempted to use several counterfeit £50
notes to buy a large quantity of stationery products from Bastins
on the High Street on Saturday morning.
A
spokeswoman for the shop confirmed to Burnham-On-Sea.com: "We
always check large bank notes and therefore discovered the notes
were counterfeit before the customer left with the goods."
Within
minutes, a warning went out to other shops and businesses across
Burnham-On-Sea via the Radio Link system to advise them to look
out for further suspicious money.
There
have been several other warnings about fake bank notes in recent
years. Last
August, a Burnham-On-Sea Carnival Club accepted £100
of counterfeit notes at a street party in the town centre, and
in June
2007 a warning was issued after a fake £20 note was
accepted by staff at the Victoria Hotel.
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