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FACTS OF THE DAY

01 August 2017

The most confiscated items at London City airport are snow globes. Also in the top ten are Marmite, Nutella and furry handcuffs

telegraph.co.uk

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Netflix has 104 million subscribers and debts of $20.54 billion - which works out at $197.75 million per customer.

latimes.com

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New research has shown that the amount of one-to-one tuition university that students receive is very uneven, ranging from 185 hours per year to just four.

thetimes.co.uk

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Nearly 40% of GPs plan to leave the NHS within five years.

telegraph.co.uk

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20% of MPs continue to employ a family member at the taxpayer’s expense, despite a ban on the practice for new members of Parliament.

bbc.co.uk

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A 16-year old at a Youth Select Committee hearing has beaten Jacob Rees-Mogg’s record for the longest word used in Parliament (‘floccinaucinihilipilification’) with ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis’.

thetimes.co.uk


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