In Newcastle there are three different banks and one building society. The biggest bank is the "Bank Of Newcastle" which has at the moment around 50,000 customers. The second biggest is "Droids" which has around 30,000 customers, and the smallest bank is I.N.K. which has around 10,000 customers. The Building society has around 20,000 customers.
Newcastle Monetary System
There are 5 different bills. (1) 5 pound bills, (2) 10 pound bills, (3) 25 pound bills, (4 ) 100 pound bills, and 5 the 250 pond bills.
Tax in Newcastle is low, it is around 15%. There isn't any interest for banks either.
Cost of Living in Newcastle
Prices in Newcastle are low. For Example a loaf of bread costs 39p. To make a phone call to Australia costs only 19p per minute. An trip to Australia
( Sydney ) costs only 399 pounds. Including Hotel, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and a Free trip to Australia's Nature Park.
It takes around $1.50 to make 1 pound.
The only thing that costs a lot is hotels. You could pay up to 1099 pounds for up to two weeks in a top hotel room. Including Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and free membership to the archery club.
Average Workers in Newcastle make quite a lot of money. They make around 40,000 pounds every year. A recent survey shows that over 89% of all the adults that can work are.
The Newcastle Postal System
Newcastle has a lot of mail. So much that there have to be two postal services. B.T.T. and D.T.T. They have to sort and send out around 50,000 letters each everyday. That is why there is a law that states people must recycle all their letters they receive ( unless they wan't to keep them ) instead of trowing them out.
The two companies arrange things like this, B.T.T. sorts out London and Oxford whiles D.T.T. sorts out and Manchester. There are three different types of stamps. ( 1 )
10p stamps, (2) 20p stamps and (3) 1 pound stamps.
