Soon you won't be able to pay for your pint with a Churchill anymore. When the five-pound note is redesigned, the old prime minister will disappear as its motif.
Meanwhile, novelist Jane Austen, artist JMW Turner and codebreaker Alan Turing are featured on the ten-, twenty- and fifty-pound notes respectively.
Instead, motifs from the animal world will adorn the notes. This is done partly to highlight British fauna, and partly to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters.
Not everyone is happy with the decision.
"He (Churchill) earned his place on our five-pound note. He must not be replaced by an otter," writes Conservative MP Alex Burghart on X.
