A schoolboy's offer to pay for his bus fare with a Scottish £10 note (above) was refused

A bus company has apologised after a schoolboy was refused travel when he tried to pay with a Scottish £10 note.

Sixth former Jack Banfield was reportedly on his way home from Morriston Comprehensive in Swansea when he gave a conductor the cash for his £1.70 fare.

The First Cymru employee said he could not accept the note and when the teenager got on another bus he said he received the same response.

A spokeswoman for the operator said: "We would like to wholeheartedly apologise to Jack for the trouble he had travelling on our services on Monday afternoon.

"We do accept Scottish notes on our buses, and the note tendered by Jack should have been accepted as payment for the journey he was making.

"We will investigate what has happened here and will talk to those staff involved to ensure that nothing like this happens again. In addition we'll be writing to Jack to apologise personally for what happened."