IBS Journal June 2017
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still refusing to accept card payments, whilst a further 10% impose a lower limit on non-cash payments.
James Frost, UK CMO, Worldpay, says: “For today’s digitally driven shoppers, cash has become a relic. It’s easy to see why that’s the case, as innovations like contactless
and mobile payments continue to raise the bar in terms of speed, simplicity and convenience. For consumers, being able to pay by which ever method they choose is a minimum requirement of what it means to be a modern retailer.”
Scott Thompson
Austen experts slam BoE over ‘retouched’ tenner
choosing an airbrushed image of the novelist Jane Austen for the polymer £10 note, which will be unveiled in July.
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Campaigners backed Austen to be the face of the new note, following the decision to remove Elizabeth Fry, the Quaker prison reformer, from the fiver and replace her with Winston Churchill. But they now say the Bank of England should
he Bank of England has been accused of
have used used a more realistic sketch of the writer by her sister Cassandra, rather than a ‘retouched’ portrait.
The Austen biographer, Paula Byrne, told the Sunday Times: “They presumably said to the artist, make it look prettier…It is like doctoring a selfie by a celebrity. It is such a shame because that demure image is just not Austen.”
The historian and TV presenter, Lucy Worsley, who has recently published a book about the author, said: “Jane Austen fans are pleased, obviously, that she’s going to appear on the banknote, but it’s deeply ironic that the image chosen by the Bank of England isn’t really her. It’s an author publicity portrait painted after she died in which she’s been given the Georgian equivalent of an airbrushing; she’s been subtly ‘improved’. Jane had a much sharper face, some might call it sour. And she was a sharp person. I think of her as being like a bracing martini.”
Scott Thompson
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