IT’S DAY 211 OF 2015

THE average British worker spends 211 hours a year — 54 minutes each working day — commuting to and from work. ISAMBARD Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Eastern was the world’s largest ship when launched in 1858 at 211m long. It took 41 years before a longer ship was built — RMS Oceanic. WOMEN were banned from membership of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) for 211 years until 1998, when the club reversed its men-only policy. ‘THIS tape will self-destruct in five seconds,’ was the phrase used at the start of the majority of the 211 episodes and film versions of Sixties spy series Mission Impossible.