NEW £10 NOTE HAS BRAILLE-STYLE FEATURE

The raised dots can be seen in the top right hand side of the note

Visually impaired people have praised the new £10 note for a special feature built in to help tell notes apart.

The new polymer tenner... features raised Braille-style bumps in the top left-hand corner.

It was developed in conjunction with the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB).

Ian Morris, who is partially-sighted, told HuffPost UK that he thought the new feature was “absolutely fantastic”.

He said: “It’s part of the evolution of what I’d call inclusive money, so a number of people who are sighted wouldn’t realise that the old paper notes - the five, 10 and 20, were three different lengths. So if you had a reference note, say you knew you definitely had a £10 note, then the fiver was slightly shorter and the twenty was slightly longer. But you basically had to stand there and line up edges and feel along the note.

“When the new £5 note came out then for me that was splendid. It was much smaller, very tactilely different. So it was very easy for you to organise your wallet in terms of ‘that’s a fiver and that’s not’. So I was very interested to see what the new £10 note felt like.”

The new £10 note, which features author Jane Austen, also includes bold numerals, differing colours and tiered sizing to further help partially-sighted and blind people, according to Optometry Today.

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