Joint Up Government
‘THERES safety in numbers. Thats why the papers love them. Here are some things we learned last week
2 Prince Harry spends £2 a week on the Lotto
22 Police pulled over and upbraided 22-month-old Oliver Smith for driving his toy car top speed 2.5pmh along the pavement
35 Patrick Deuel, the worlds fattest man, has lost 35 stone in less than year. He once weighed 76 stone
44 A YouGov survey said the average worked spends £44 a week on food, transport, clothing and other work-related expenses
86 The Amount of potato in a Burger King chip is 86 per cent
160 Frank Lampard made 160 consecutive appearances for Chelsea, a Premier League record
512 The number of joints that can be rolled from a 4oz block of cannabis resin, the amount Home Secretary Charles Clarke said you could carry for personal use
600 To protect witnesses who have received death threats, 600 cameras will watch the comings and goings in the court where Saddam Hussein is on trial
600 A survey of Canon technicians suggested that one third of Christmas work involved repairing broken glass on copiers that had been sat on
1,000 Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000 person to be executed in the US since America reintroduced capital punishment 28 years ago
1,600 Lisa Nash, 20, of Hednesford, Staffs, was fined £150 with £1,498 costs for refusing to pay a £50 on-the-spot fine for throwing her cigarette butt on the pavement
40,000 Tonys eldest son, Euan Blair, has been hired by French billionaire Bernard Arnault on a two-month internship at Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey. It was reported, Euan has been provided with a lifestyle package worth at least £40,000.
47,000 According to the accounts of Football Productions, David Beckham earned £47,000 a day last year
200,000 West Mercia police force paid American motivational guru Mary Gober £200,000 to teach 999 operators how to answer the phone (see Anorak Force Smile)
202,000 Los Angeles cabbie Haider Sediqi handed over jewels worth £202,000 left in his taxi. He received a reward of £6,000 and a bracelet
4,400,000 Daniel Betts, 20, claimed to have won £4.4million on the Lotto. His girlfriend quit her job. The couple were pictured celebrating in the local paper, and the £90-aweek barman from Langwith Junction, Notts, promised his dad a season ticket at Derby County. It was all a lie
6,000,000 David H Brooks spent £6million hiring 50 Cent, Tom Petty and Aerosmith for his daughter Elizabeths 12th birthday party
12,000,000 Hollywood Reporter magazine said Julia Roberts was the highest paid actress, earning £12million a movie
6billion Figures calculated from the Office for National Statistics said spending on second homes was now at £6bn a year’
Posted: 3rd, December 2005 | In: Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
