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On 07/06/2015 12:02, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>:
>
>> Get your cheque book and go for paid support.
>
> Are checks still in use in Britain? I thought only Americans still did
> that.
>
> Marko
>

Cheques are still in use in Britain.  There was a move a year or so ago 
to get rid of them but too many people complained.  However I feel that 
they're doomed in the same way that cash is on the way out as reported 
here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32778196

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence