WEEK IN NUMBERS

20

The number of years since a professional rugby match was played at Perth’s North Inch.

Glasgow Warriors take on English Premiership side Harlequins there today. A 5,000-capacity stand has been built for the occasion.

9

The percentage fall in the death rate for hospital patients across Scotland in four years.

The Scottish Patient Safety Programme aims to reduce hospital mortality by 10% by the end of 2018.

100

The number of buildings and spaces in public ownership sold in Dundee in the past four years.

The sale has earned the city council close to £10 million. Some were derelict buildings.

300

The length of time that 17th Century vaults have lain unused under the streets of Dundee. Packhouse Square, built in 1644 as a storage area, has now been opened to the public, having been discovered in Exchange Street in 2000.

38

The number thought to have been killed when a motorway bridge collapsed in the Italian city of Genoa. The Morandi Bridge, built in the 1960s, is an important route for goods traffic, but is known locally as the “sick bridge”.

90

The number of years that Stuart Bannerman has lived in his Dundee home. His home was built in 1927, a year before he was born. He has never considered moving.