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EVERY WEEK, TheJournal.ie offers a selection of statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.
4: The number of train stations that feature on the country’s new stamps.
2: The number of new books being released in the world of Harry Potter.
1.8 million: The number of new HIV infections in the year 2016, almost half the record of the 3.5 million in 1997.
500: The estimated number of fish that died after the River Tolka got polluted due to someone putting a tyre into the sewer.
19,752: The number of households on Dublin City Council’s social housing waiting list.
500,00: The number of passports issued in the first half of 2017.
€3.8 billion: The amount of money the Criminal Assets Bureau returned to the state last year.
75: The number of years a Swiss couple who disappeared in the Alps spent “perfectly preserved” in a glacier before being discovered.
£150: The amount of money a five-year-old girl was fined for selling four jugs of lemonade at the end of her London street.
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5 years old or not.. It was the correct decision.. Who does she think she is selling lemonade at a stand without a licence?? Not paying tax or nothing ..The law wins again. Let this be a lesson to all kids in the future who want to sell lemonade and get a slight experience and grasp of what work is at a very young age. Talk about cheeky smh.. Parents should be hung and quartered as well
@Acedeuce: well said. The cheek of her. I bet those 4 big enforcement officers feel real proud.
Am sure they will tell their own kids of their 5 mins of fame……or will they try and be modest and not say feck all…..
@Acedeuce: Apparently this was a stunt by her aul lad, who was street trading illegally, without a licence. But sure lets ignore that and believe this nonsense instead
@Lord C; source?
3.8 billion returned to the state???
@Terry OHagan: did they get a few bob back off the property developer gangsters?!
Who said leaving comments here is useless!
Last week the Journal reported that the Criminal Assets Bureau returned € 3.8 million, and we all poured scorn on them as a bunch of useless wasters.
This week they have pulled up their socks and got stuck in, and the Journal can report the figure as up to €3.8 billion.. well done CAB!!
That young girl should move to ireland, theres great support for start ups here.
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