Mexico’s Trump wall bill borders on $25bn

“WE’RE gonna build a wall!” But how much will Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s infamous wall between the US and Mexico actually cost?

Researchers at Bernstein, quoted by The Economist, have crunched the numbers and found that if it runs 1000 miles, a 40-foot-high wall will need almost $1 billion (£760 million) of concrete and cement.

Throwing in labour costs, and the whole thing might cost between $15 billion and $25 billion, well above Trump’s suggested $10 billion. Still that doesn’t matter, does it? Because, “Who’s gonna pay for the wall? Mexico!”

JUST Eat boss David Buttress tells us it was with a “heavy heart” that he’s replacing its musical Madras, Baby! and Balti Rocks TV ads. Since the ads were dubbed “the most annoying thing on TV” and “crimes against music”, Spy suspects there won’t be too much heartbreak.

ATTENTION readers in Bromley, Watford and Essex — your shopping trips are about to be interrupted. Landlord intu tells Spy it’s tapping Nintendo to get virtual Pokémon Go locations into its shopping centres. Cue zombiefied teens wandering slackjawed into your path, staring at their phones. Nothing new there, then.

WITH the Olympics around the corner, it’s time to recognise some truly superhuman feats. But Domino’s Pizza wants to remind us of the Herculean efforts it puts in on a daily basis. It might take Usain Bolt 9.58 seconds to run 100 metres but Domino’s sells 26 pizzas in that time. Doesn’t sound as if that London 2012 legacy of a fitter, healthier nation has kicked in yet…