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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
They aren’t necessary, that’s the point.
They want to preserve them as historical documents and the government is trying to cut storage costs.
Oh
Well in that case I’m a lot more meh about this. Thanks!
Yeah I’m not a historian so I’m not sure the value of keeping the originals.