8 March 2017
1 in 100 Americans work for Walmart.
~
Only 4.2% of Fortune 500 companies are run by women.
~
The Government’s second Brexit defeat by the Lords was the largest since 1831, when they voted against the Reform Bill.
~
A Spanish company has been fined for selling blue wine, which is not an official EU wine colour. They’ve got round it by making something that’s only 99% wine.
~
Police in Greater Manchester are looking for a man who tried to rob a fish and chip shop with a banana.
~
A 25-year-old turtle in Thailand has had 915 coins surgically removed from its stomach. People had been throwing coins into its pool for luck
~
A man whose daughter gave birth in the back on his car on the way to hospital in Londonderry tied the baby’s umbilical cord with one of his shoelaces.