Jane Austen may appear on banknotes
Sir Mervyn King (the outgoing governor of the Bank of England) has announced author Jane Austen may replace Charles Darwin on the £10 note.
Europe isn’t working
Unemployment in the Eurozone hits a new record high. The seasonally-adjusted unemployment figures show that from March to April 2013 an extra 95,000 people were out of work in the 17 countries that use the euro.
Nearly 1 million over-65s are still working
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the number of people aged over 65 in employment in the UK reached a record level of 980,000 in the first quarter of 2013.