This week in numbers

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By winning her 3rd gold at Tokyo, Lisa Carrington took her Olympic medal haul to 6 .A7thisa possibility as she is part of the NZ K4 500m crew contesting the final today.

5

parrots at Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre have been separated after swearing repeatedly at visitors. Despite most visitors finding Billy, Eric, Tyson, Jade and Elsie’s inappropriate behaviour funny the zoo has moved each to a different area so they are unable to provoke each other and ruffle any parents’ feathers.

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dollars is what you’ll pay to stay a night in Nelson Mandela’s old home in Johannesburg. Opening as a five-star boutique hotel, it will offer creature comforts South Africa’s first democratically elected president could only dream of during his 27 years of imprisonment.

4

In the three months to June 30, the unemployment rate fell to 4 per cent, from 4.6 per cent at the end of March, the biggest quarterly fall in 35 years, said Stats NZ.

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Team GB diver Tom Daley, who knitted away as he watched his teammates compete, has finished his Olympic cardigan, complete with a pouch to hold the gold medal he won alongside Matty Lee in the men’s synchronised 10m platform. He hopes the cardie will raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity in memory of his dad.

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Mattel has created 6 Barbie dolls to honour women working in science, technology, engineering and maths, including Australian doctor Kirby White who co-created a reusable PPE gown for frontline staff.