In Other News…

• Ulster Bank, one of Northern Ireland’s three note issuing banks, has unveiled the design of its new vertically-orientated £50, which is inspired by the women of the province and is being printed on polymer.

The front of the note honours astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s discovery of pulsars, for which she won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974. The back features ‘Millies’, the women who were the backbone of the Irish linen industry.

The unveiling of the note coincided with International Women’s Day. It will go into circulation in June.

• The United States Mint has begun shipping the Dr Sally Ride quarter, the second coin of the American Women Quarters (AWQ) Program. Sally Ride, who died in 2012, was a physicist and astronaut, and the first American women in space.