While the Bank of England consults on who will appear on the next round of British bank notes, with reports that Winston Churchill could be dropped from the fiver, this week in the South Atlantic a new set of bank notes came into circulation.

The notes will include the Falkland Islands coat of arms, the national flower, the black-browed albatross, and Hugo Burnand’s official portrait of HM the King

August 14 is Falklands day, and in celebration of the first recorded sighting of the Islands (in 1592), fresh fivers, tens, and twenties will be rolled out: the first new notes since 1984. (There will be no new fifties, apparently the Falklands bought enough of these notes in the 80s to last for the next 90 years). It may come as a shock to some that we do not spend Sterling here in the Falkla

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