Think Pink
‘THERES safety in numbers. Thats why the papers love them. Here are some things we learned last week
4 National Centre for Social Research says four in 10 of us will retire on just a basic state pension
6 Government says six in every hundred of us are gay
12 A prison medic in California struggled for 12 minutes to find a vein in which he could inject murderer Stanley Tookie Williams with a lethal does of poison
15 Angler Mark Everard caught Britains biggest ever minnow 4.5 inches long and 15g
50 Former Education Minister Stephen Twigg was fined £50 for being drunk and incapable in a public place’
74 Beleaguered Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson stormed out of a press conference after just 74 seconds
83 A computer test on the Mona Lisa by scientists in Amsterdam found her to be 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry
625 American troops rescued 625 Iraqis from a secret jail. Thirteen had been badly tortured and needed hospital treatment
1,500 A man in Hong Kong paid £1,500 for a Champions League winners medal
4,021 A survey by a credit car firm found that men spend on average £4,021 a year watching sport (inc. tickets, nights in the pub and Sky telly)
50,000 Coleen McLoughlin and Wayne Rooneys new home is being bedecked with a £50,000 display of Christmas lights
550,000 Department for Constitutional Affairs says 550,000 people living in London who could vote are not registered to do so
4m Agency doctors and nurses cost the NHS over £4m a year
118m Revenue from Gatso speed cameras rose to 118m for year 2003-04, up from £10m in 2000-01
130bn Benefit spending under Labour has risen from £91.8bn when it came to power to £130bn today’
Posted: 17th, December 2005 | In: Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
