Swansea schoolboy bus row over Scottish £10 note Published duration 14 January 2015

image copyright Wales News Service image caption Jack said the weather had been "chucking it down" when he tried to catch the bus

A schoolboy had to walk for an hour in pouring rain and freezing temperatures to get home after two bus drivers refused to accept a Scottish banknote.

Jack Banfield, 18, tried to pay for the £1.70 journey from Morriston to Plasmarl with a Scottish £10, which is legal currency throughout the UK.

The drivers both said they would have had problems putting the note, given as a present, in their machines.

First Cymru apologised "wholeheartedly" and said they would talk to staff.

The Morriston Comprehensive student said: "The weather had been chucking it down. I gave the conductor a Scottish £10 note, but he said he couldn't take it.

"He said he has problems putting it in the machine and that he would have to change it in his break.

"I thought it must've been that one conductor, so I got on the next bus and that conductor told me the very same thing.

"What if it was a 60-year-old? Would the conductor have asked them to get off?"

A First Cymru Bus spokesman said: "Scottish currency is legal tender in the UK and it should have been accepted on our buses as payment for the journey he was making. We will investigate what has happened here."

image copyright Wales News Service image caption The money was a gift from relatives in Glasgow

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