10 Things
16:38 UK time, Friday, 14 September 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Poverty costs British people £600 each per year, says the TUC.
2. Israel has active neo-Nazis.
3. Osama Bin Laden is known to fellow jihadists as Abu Abdullah.
4. The Marquess of Blandford's real name is Charles Spencer-Churchill, although he is commonly known as Jamie Blandford.
5. It takes police 25 minutes on average to fill in a stop-and-search form, according to chief inspector of constabulary Sir Ronnie Flanagan.
6. Telly Savalas was recruited to help promote Aberdeen as Europe's oil capital in 1980.
7. A women's football match drew 53,000 spectators to Goodison Park, Liverpool, in 1920, a year before the sport was banned by the Football Association.
8. George Bush once locked Colin Powell out of a meeting for being late.
9. More than one in 10 (12%) of school absences are down to agreed family holidays .
10. Older siblings stunt growth.
Sources: 5 - Guardian (12 Sept); 7 - ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Five Live; 8 - Guardian (14 September)
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