A booklet of vouchers arrived, with one for each day to hand to the newsagent of our choice. On the first day, a Times reading friend saw them and warned that we'd have trouble getting shops to accept them due to the increasing amount of fraud.
"People have been making fake Times vouchers, printing them off and getting the paper for free," she said. "So lots of newsagents won't take them."
A tiny frisson of schadenfreude at the thought of a modest dent in Rupert Murdoch's profits lifted my heart for a moment before I set off in trepidation with my first voucher.
"No problem," said the shopkeeper who took it.
Seemingly it's just those lowlife Times readers who perpetrate the counterfeits. Well, it is the organ of the establishment after all.
