How to get british pound symbol on laptop with US keyboard

[zabadabadoo]

Some things to try here:

Pound symbol (£) on US keyboard on 12.10

Also:

How to type pound sign(£) using US keyboard, in Windows, Linux and Mac?

I have a US keyboard on my old laptop, but have Zorin keyboard set to UK English. I have to remember some keys are then swapped round, but no hardship once you are used to it.