Contactless is a Big Issue

SELLERS of the Big Issue will be able to take contactless payment as part of a trial.

The magazine for the homeless will try out the scheme in London, Bath, Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham.

If successful it will be rolled out nationally.

The mag’s chief Russell Blackman said: “We have long recognised that we are operating in an increasingly cashless society.”

Mary Holden, 52, who sells it in Victoria, London said: “It’s brilliant news.” STONED Sir Billy Connolly