Bank of England’s new plastic £10 ‘Austen’ note is entering circulation

A NEW £10 banknote celebrating Jane Austen has entered circulation and will start to show up in people’s pockets in the coming days and weeks.

The new tenner is the first Bank of England banknote with a tactile feature to help blind and partially-sighted users.

The new tactile feature is a series of raised dots in the top left-hand corner of the banknote, developed with the help of the RNIB.

Like the £5 note already in circulation featuring

Sir Winston Churchill, the new £10 note featuring Pride And Prejudice author Austen is made from polymer.

Just over one billion polymer £10 notes have been printed ready for issue and they will start to appear as the notes leave cash centres around the country.

The new banknotes are expected to last at least

The £10 note has an image of author Jane Austen.

two-and-a-half times longer than the current paper £10 notes, around five years in total.

People can continue to spend the existing paper £10 notes for now. They will be phased out gradually as they are banked.

Legal tender status of

the paper £10 featuring Charles Darwin will eventually be withdrawn in spring 2018.

The exact date will be announced at least three months in advance.

A new Bank of England £20 note featuring artist JMW Turner will follow in 2020. SECURITY is being reviewed at Prince George’s school after a woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary.

The Metropolitan Police said it was working with Thomas’s Battersea, in south London, following the break-in on Tuesday.

Prince George, four, was not understood to be at the £17,000-a-year independent school.

The 40-year-old woman remains in custody after being arrested yesterday.

A police spokesman said: “The arrest at 2.15pm on Wednesday, September 13 relates to an incident at Thomas’s Battersea School on Tuesday, September 12 when an individual gained access to its premises.

“The arrested woman was taken to a south London police station