WEEK IN NUMBERS

£1.4m

The price of an entire Perthshire estate. Coul Estate, near Auchterarder, with a C-listed manor house, an orchard, cottages and 70 acres of land will give the new owners a chance to be lord and lady of the manor.

3m

The number of miles clocked up behind the wheel by Britain’s most travelled bus driver. Mike Davies, 68, covers the National Express company’s longest route from Edinburgh to Plymouth, via Taunton. He has worked for 40 years with the company.

168

The number of funders who made the building of Dundee’s McManus museum possible. The supporters group, McManus 168, is trying to find out details about the original subscribers of the 1800s.

1,150

The number of hardy souls who tackled the Cateran Yomp. The hikers, soldiers and civilians, faced terrible weather conditions, but the endurance event saw record numbers taking part.

£15m

The amount spent by councils in Tayside and Fife each year on ferrying children to school by taxi. Education authorities must provide transport, or help with the cost of transport, if they consider it necessary to help children to get to school.

£500k

The amount expected at auction for a ring designed and crafted by Pablo Picasso. The artist gifted the ring to his muse, Dora Maar, after she threw her own ring into the River Seine during a lovers’ tiff.