He’s Having A Baby
‘THERES safety in numbers. Here are 18 things we learned last week
2 – Paula Dadswell waited two hours to have her sick baby seen at South Tyneside District Hospital while the doctor rode up and down on a unicycle
9 Catherine Zeta Jones refused to kiss husband Michael Douglas for 9 months after their first date.
29 Single-person households now account for 29 per cent of all UK homes compared to 18 per cent in 1971
48 Japanese artist Tomoko Takahashi was given a £5,000 grant to drink 48 bottles of lager and then try to walk across a balancing beam at the Government-funded Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
56 Paramedic Dennis Ryan was fined after he was caught doing 56mph in a 40mph zone while driving a patient with a broken neck to hospital in an ambulance
66 There has been a 66 per cent rise in repossession orders against homebuyers across the country since last year
78.59 per cent of Iraqis voted in favour of the countrys draft constitution in a referendum. There was a 63 per cent turn out
92 Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white man led to the civil rights movement, died aged 92
500 Thierry Henry paid £500 to have his baby daughters umbilical cord frozen as a medical precaution in case she ever falls seriously ill
2,000 Staff Sergeant George Alexander became the 2,000 American soldier to lose his life in Iraq since the invasion of March 2000
17,000 Cherie Blair was reported to have been paid £17,000 for speaking at a gala dinner for the childrens Cancer Institute Australia. The charity received just £6,774
38,750 – Geraint Davies, the then Labour MP for Croydon Central, billed £176,026 in expenses for year between April 2004 and March 2005. This included a whopping £38,750 for postage
49,000 Two leaky taps and a broken loo on an unoccupied travellers site in Somerset landed council tax payers with a £49,000 water bill
85,000 – The Senate Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations said it had tracked £85,000 in Iraqi oil money to George Galloways wifes bank account in Jordan
9,000,000 The National Health Service trusts have spent £9million on art in the past two years
25,000,000 Elvis Presley earned £25million last year, making him the worlds highest earning resting celebrity. Elvis earned more than Charles Schulz ((£19m), John Lennon (£12m) and Marilyn Monroe (£4.5m)
30,000,000 BP makes more than £30million profit a day
203,000,000 Government spending on advertising rose by £14million to £203million a year in 2004-2005′
Posted: 31st, October 2005 | In: Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
