The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)

WEEK IN NUMBERS

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£20bn

The amount held in a “lost-pension mountain”. According to an insurance industry body, around 1.6 million lost pension-pots could remain unclaimed with people losing track of their savings due to job changes.

37

The number of presenters who have appeared on Blue Peter.

The children’s TV show is celebratin­g 60 years. The programme has also featured 25 pets and one million badges since its first broadcast in 1958.

1,366,026

The number of passengers who passed through Edinburgh Airport last month. That is the busiest ever for the airport. More than 902,000 were internatio­nal travellers.

34

The percentage of women aged 25 to 34 who snore heavily at least three nights a week.

A hospital survey found that only 31% of men in the same age group snored. However, snoring was more prevalent among men in later life.

70,000

The number of bees looked after by Charley Clark of Fife. The 17-year-old has harvested her first batch of honey at Lindores Abbey Distillery, Newburgh, where she set up the hives.

18,000

The number of members of the British armed forces who are deemed to be clinically obese.

Statistics show that 398 troops have type 2 diabetes and 16 have been given liposuctio­n.

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