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London - A bank may have lost thousands of pounds when a hole-in-the-wall cash machine doled out £20 notes instead of £10 notes…

London - A bank may have lost thousands of pounds when a hole-in-the-wall cash machine doled out £20 notes instead of £10 notes for about five hours. Police were eventually called to guard the Woolwich machine in Campkin Road, Cambridge, until staff arrived to close shutters. Witnesses said queues of as many as 30 people formed outside the machine on Tuesday evening.

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