May Day weekend sets a new record for cash machine withdrawals

Friday 30 April was the busiest day ever for LINK cash withdrawals with £590m withdrawn, beating the previous record, which was on Christmas Eve 2009, by £25m. Over £1.5bn had been withdrawn by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend, an increase of 9% on the same period in 2009. Friday lunch time is the busiest time of the week for cash machines and, on Friday 30 April, transactions hit a new record of over 1,100,000 in one hour and nearly 20,000 in a single minute.