At least £2.1bn worth of old £10 notes need to be spent or exchanged before they cease to be legal tender, the Bank of England says. The deadline to spend or exchange old £10 notes - featuring naturalist Charles Darwin - is 1 March. Plastic polymer tenners depicting author Jane Austen entered circulation in September. more

Darwin £10 notes will cease to be legal tender after 1 March 2018 Following the successful launch of the new Jane Austen £10 note on 14 September 2017, the Bank of England will withdraw legal tender status of the paper £10 note featuring Charles Darwin at 23:59 hrs (GMT) on Thursday 1 March. The public more

The new £10 note featuring novelist Jane Austen has entered circulation - marking a return of a woman in addition to the Queen on Bank of England notes. The launch comes after a four-month period when women, apart from the Queen, have not been represented on the Bank’s notes. The last was the £5 note more

The new plastic Jane Austen tenner will come into circulation this Thursday, September 14 – meaning time’s nearly up for the old paper ones. The polymer note is the first British banknote with tactile information for blind and partially sighted people – and features author Jane Austen. Austen knocks Charles Darwin off his slot on more