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‘Lewes in East Sussex hopes to safeguard its traditions by issuing a local currency. Next month, in the latest sign that localism is a coming force in British everyday life, Lewes will launch its own currency. In doing so, it joins a growing list of communities around the world attempting to protect regional economies and preserve the distinctive ‘feel' of towns and villages.’
The Observer 17 August 2008

‘The news agenda is filled with stories of a global credit crunch. Banks are hard up for money and customers are finding it more difficult to get credit. In the Sussex town of Lewes they're devising a plan which could change all of that. They want to print their own local money. The town did have its own pound before but it was last in circulation in 1895.’
BBC Working Lunch 12 May 2008

On the week of the launch, Lewes was flooded with news film crews from Japan, Korea, Norway, Germany, France and Italy. It was on BBC News SouthEast three evenings running.  

It continued to go viral as it was picked up by media of all kinds around the world. It was seen on BBC TV,CNN, the Chris Evans Show, American Public Radio, The Observer, The Times, the Guardian, the Mail, Mirror and Sun, The India Time, the hastings Observer, any number of provincial papers and our very own Sussex Express, Viva Lewes and The Argus.

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