Retailers must now charge shoppers at least five pence for each new single-use carrier bag.

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Why, then, are these pilots - offering a five pence reduction in fuel duty - only benefiting island communities?

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The RSPCA said its various roles were independently run and that about five pence in every pound donated were spent on prosecutions.

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The original series of scout volunteer weeks was known as "bob-a-job week", and saw members of the public asked to contribute a shilling - worth five pence - in exchange for scouts doing jobs.

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The US adopted decimal dollars hundreds of years ago and the UK clung to pounds-shillings-pence-farthings until 1976(?) Hardly anyone but older Britons can even imagine how to divide a bill for 7 Pounds, 5 Shillings and five Pence among three diners, or the painful calculations involved.

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The comment comes two days before many fares in the city increase by between five and 25 pence per journey.

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Shares of BP slid by 1.6% to 408.5 pence in London after a report in the Financial Times said four of the company's five North Sea installations inspected in 2009 had failed to comply with emergency regulations on oil spills, according to offshore inspection reports from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

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