WEEK IN NUMBERS

£277,000

The bill NHS Tayside faces for missed meetings in one week. It has urged patients to keep better track of their appointments, saying that at least one in 10 are wasted every week because they don’t turn up, costing £150 each time.

12

The age of some children who will be among patients at the first NHS-funded gaming addiction centre.

A group picked for the trial are so addicted to games it has kept them off school and harmed their relationships.

£100

The cost of damage to a Dundee charity shop which was broken into. The culprit broke in through a door panel but, bizarrely, the only things taken were some biscuits.

1.4cm

The size of a piece of the Stone of Destiny which will be auctioned this month.

It was taken by stonemason Robert Gray, who repaired the stone after it was removed from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalists in 1950.

7

The percentage of Scots attending church, according to a 2017 survey.

The Scottish Church Census found a record low of 390,000 people now go to services.

80

The birthday celebrated by the comic The Beano. Home to characters such as Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx, the children’s comic sold almost two million copies a week in the 1950s.