New Plastic £5 Note Celebrates 'Bulldog Spirit'

The five-pound note, which will be released into circulation in September, features former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney paid tribute to the wartime PM's "bulldog spirit" as he revealed the design at Sir Winston's birthplace at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. "This spirit is just one, only one, of his many contributions that the Bank commemorates with the new fiver," Mr Carney said.