Goodbye Winston Churchill, hello beavers on English banknotes

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Banknotes issued by the Bank of England will soon feature images of wildlife rather than historical figures, following a public consultation on the design of the next set of currency. On the current crop of notes are former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (£5), author Jane Austen (£10), painter J.M.W. Turner (£20), and mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing (£50). The Bank of England held a public consultation on banknote imagery last year. In a press release, it said that of the

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