WEEK IN NUMBERS

50,000

The number of bike journeys recorded in six months of a city cycle route. The number of cyclists who have passed the counter at Douglas Terrace in Broughty Ferry ticked past the milestone mark.

10

The number of years that the welcome team at Ninewells have been helping patients and their families. The volunteers are the first port of call for those navigating the hospital’s warren-like network of corridors and wards.

£120m

The amount spent by Scots on websites on so-called Cyber Monday. On a landmark day for retail, web spending almost matched Scotland’s high street spending for the first time.

£60k

The value of bottles of vodka stolen from a warehouse in Glasgow. Men broke in during the early hours and took more than 140 cases of Ciroc Vodka from the premises.

100,000

The number of young Scots who are now classed as obese. Experts at Strathclyde University warned that the current methods of measuring could be at risk of underestimating the scale of the problem in Scotland by as much as half.

£800k

The price tag put on Adam Smith’s own copy of his book The Wealth of Nations. Smith, from Kirkcaldy, published the first major work of political economy in 1776. The book took the Enlightenment thinker almost 10 years to write.