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Your support makes all the difference.Occasions on which UK departments of state have been found guilty of violating European Human Rights since 1981: 20
Years until earth's ozone layer over Toronto is destroyed, at current thinning rate: 110
NHS spending on drugs per Briton in 1982 at today's prices: pounds 22.80
In 1992: pounds 52.87
Patent rheumatism skin creams available on prescription: 102
Prescriptions dispensed every minute in Scotland: 264
Valium-type tranquilliser addicts seeking treatment in Scotland 1991-92: 1,439
Percentage of the US federal budget spent on the elderly: 30
On education: 2
Vehicles per square mile in the British Isles: 233
Bonuses paid to road-building contractors by the Department of Transport since 1988: pounds 17,300,000
Penalty payments to the Department of Transport by road-building contractors since 1988: pounds 1,250,000
Government payments to Brays Detective agency for photographing protestors at Twyford Down motorway excavation: pounds 7,000
Dead birds per 100 imported each year: 15
Women in prison for violence against others: 190
Women owning fur coats in Italy: 7,500,000
Sources: RM/Office of the Prime Minister; RM/Canada News (0.7 per cent pa since 1963); RM/Dept of Health; ibid; RM/Dept of Health (topical anti-rheumatics); RM/Scottish Office; Scottish Office; Rolling Stone/Douglas Coupland, Generation X; ibid; RM/Info 93/Dept of Transport; Dept of Transport; ibid; ibid; MAFF; Home Office; Press Association.
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