IT’S DAY 296 . . .

HENRY ALLINGHAM, who died in July 2009, was the last RAF and British naval veteran of World War I. In March of that year, he became the oldest-ever British man when he clocked up 112 years and 296 days. THERE is a calculation that will produce the number 1 using every number from 0 to 9 just once. It is 148/ 296 + 35/70. THE Spice Girls notched up the highest annual earnings ever for a girl band in 1998, with an income of £29.6million. The Union Jack dress Geri wore at the Brit Awards a year earlier later sold for £36,000 at auction.