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Elen Lewis, Marketing Society editor, curates the edited ‘need to know’ highlights from the weekend papers, from stop and search in the UK to pistols in Swiss homes
People over 65 now outnumber those of school age in the UK
Black people are 30 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales
The number of people applying to defer a university place dropped from 16,000 in 2010 to 6,000 last year
In Switzerland, men have to complete 260 days of military service before the age of 34, after which they are allowed to keep a pistol or rifle at home
Posted: January 16th, 2012 | Author: will.armstrong | Filed under: Need to know | Tags: Marketing Blog, Retirement, school age, university applications | Leave a Comment »
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Marketing Society editor, Elen Lewis reviews the weekend papers for need to know highlights from mining to pensions and the tooth fairy
New Ministry of Justice data says only 13% of those arrested in the London riots were gang members.
The Eurozone crisis has slashed the value of pensions by a tenth in the last month alone.
In 1913, the peak year of production, British miners dug 300m tonnes of coal. In 2010, China extracted 3.16bn tonnes.
The tooth fairy leaves £2.42 on average in the UK with London topping out at £5.10 and Hull at the bottom with 5p.
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Posted: November 14th, 2011 | Author: will.armstrong | Filed under: Need to know, Uncategorized | | Leave a Comment »
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Elen Lewis, Marketing Society editor, reviews the weekend papers for need to know highlights from Greek tragedies to favouritism and Spanish wine.
Up to two billion euros a month has been withdrawn from Greek banks since the beginning of the year.
65% of mothers and 70% of fathers exhibit a clear preference for one of their children, usually the older one.
Children, aged between their tenth and eleventh birthdays, spend on average 900 hours in class, 1277 hours with their family and 1,934 hours in front of a screen.
Spaniards drink an average of 20 litres of wine a year, compared with 70 litres in the 1970s.
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Posted: November 7th, 2011 | Author: will.armstrong | Filed under: Need to know, Uncategorized | | Leave a Comment »
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Marketing Society editor, Elen Lewis reviews the weekend papers for ‘need to know’ highlights from rent to retirement and Japanese dog raincoats.
Guatemala city has introduced women-only buses.
All-male boards remain at 14 FTSE 100 companies. This is an improvement on the 21 companies six months ago.
The average private rents are now out of reach of ordinary working families in 55% of English authorities.
The average household income will fall by £2000 in the coming year.
The Japanese spent £11.4bn on their pets last year. Meanwhile, sales of dog raincoats have increased by 50% compared with a year ago.
650,000 people retire every year.
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Posted: October 17th, 2011 | Author: will.armstrong | Filed under: Need to know, Uncategorized, morning papers | | Leave a Comment »
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The ‘nice to know’ highlights from the weekend papers, curated by Marketing Society editor Elen Lewis from The Simpsons’ pay cut to baby competition and roaming stags.
The Simpsons actors need to take a 45% pay cut to keep the TV show commercially viable say Fox.
There are two million deer roaming Britain.
Ottawa radio station Hot 89.9 is offering three rounds of fertility treatment worth £21,700 as a competition prize.
Posted: October 10th, 2011 | Author: elen.lewis | Filed under: Nice to Know | | Leave a Comment »
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The ‘need to know’ highlights from the weekend papers curated by Marketing Society editor, Elen Lewis from innocence to peace and what happens when seven billion people link hands
Of the 250 people The Innocence Project has successfully exonerated from serious crimes using DNA evidence, one quarter had confessed under interrogation.
15 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, last week it was just 12.
68% of Europeans rate climate change as a very serious problem.
The global population will hit seven billion by the end of the month. If they built a Lego tower, each adding one block, it would be 67km high. If seven billion people held hands, the chain would stretch for six million miles, 240 times around the equator.
The FTSE has fallen by £212bn in value over the third quarter.
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Elen Lewis, Marketing Society editor curates the edited ‘need to know’ highlights from the weekend papers from Chinese shoppers in Paris to stealing metal pylons.
The average first-time homebuyer in London, is now 32, four years older than the average across northern England, Wales and Scotland.
Metal theft in Britain now accounts for 7,000-10,000 crimes a month.
52% of parents have not saved for their children’s university fees.
In 2010, Chinese visitors spent $890m in France, 60% more than in 2009.
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Posted: September 26th, 2011 | Author: will.armstrong | Filed under: Need to know, Uncategorized, morning papers | Tags: morning papers, Need to know | Leave a Comment »
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Marketing Society editor, Elen Lewis reviews the weekend papers for nice to know highlights from teaching parrots to deep voices
Women remember men with a deep voice more than those with a high voice.
Escaped pet parrots can teach wild birds to say phrases learnt from their owners.
The steel used in the construction of the new Westfield shopping mall in Stratford is equivalent to the weight of 80 million medals.
Posted: September 19th, 2011 | Author: elen.lewis | Filed under: Nice to Know, morning papers | Tags: morning papers, Nice to Know | Leave a Comment »
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Marketing Society editor, Elen Lewis reviews the weekend papers for need to know highlights from Libyan women to killing technology and house deposits.
UK unemployment has risen by over 80,000 to 2.51bn in the three months to July.
46m Americans live in poverty.
Since 1990, the average house deposit has risen from £6,793 to £65,924.
Libya ranks 91st out of 102 countries in terms of gender equality.
HP killed its TouchPad tablet, the company’s competitor to Apple’s iPad after just seven weeks.
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Posted: September 19th, 2011 | Author: will.armstrong | Filed under: Need to know, Uncategorized, morning papers | Tags: morning papers, Need to know | Leave a Comment »
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Highlights from the weekend papers by Marketing Society Elen Lewis from single men in China to money bags.
30- 50 million men in China will fail to find wives over the next two decades.
The UK construction industry has faced the sharpest fall in new orders since 1980.
Hermes is worth £24.5bn on the Paris stock exchange, while SocGen is worth £15.9bn.
140 ghurkas face redundancy.
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Posted: September 5th, 2011 | Author: will.armstrong | Filed under: Need to know, Uncategorized, morning papers | Tags: marketing society membership, Need to know, Nice to Know, question time | Leave a Comment »
