WEEK IN NUMBERS

248 The number of people aged more than 100 who still hold valid driving licences. More than 100,000 people over 90 also hold licences, figures from the DVLA show.

10

The number of eggs which turned out to be double-yokers. A Letham family, the Soutars, bought a box of 10 eggs and all of them were double-yoked – the chances of which are in the region of a thousand to one.

30

The percentage fall in the number of passengers at Dundee Airport. This is due to the withdrawal of the Flybe service to Amsterdam it has been revealed. Dundee development convener Lynne Short said the figures were a “slight blip”. 100 The age of a spruce tree on the Abercairny Estate, near Crieff. It was grown from a sapling sent back from the Western front by soldier David McCabe. He sent “a small parcel of trees” back to Scotland which his father planted.

22,300

The number of signatures on a petition to contine a landfill search for missing Fife airman Corrie McKeague. Corrie’s mother Nicola Urquhart considered seeking an injuction to stop the site being filled in.

82

The age of retired chartered surveyor Ian Ramsey, who is overseeing the repair of a Fife church. He has been scaling the 65ft steeple of Kingsbarns Parish Church to work on the building.