Factoids

• One million guitars were sold in the UK last year, double the 2001 sales.
• The new population statistics show that there are now 300,000 people aged 90 or over in the United Kingdom.
• Although 447,000 Eastern Europeans from the EU's newest member states have registered for work in the UK since May 2004, only 420 have come from Slovenia.
• For every ten successful attempts on Mount Everest there is one death.
• Trap-jaw ants have been recorded closing their jaws at 66mph, the fastest known speed for an animal moving it's body parts.
• Cheddar may be the the most popular cheese in the English speaking world, but there is only one maker of it left in the village of Cheddar, the Gorge cheese company.
• and finally ......
• Zara Phillips followed in her mothers footsteps, Princess Anne, by keeping her nerve to claim individual gold on Toytown in the three-day eventing competition at the World Equestrian Games today.