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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

They have good form in spectacularly fucking this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal