17 March50% of a jumbo jets can be recycled and on average they are taken out of service after 24 years; it costs a plane's owner between £60,000 to £120,000 to dismantle a 747 and the entire process can take up to 12 weeks.
BBC 16 MarchRegulators are considering giving London cabbies ‘customer service training’ – which would include guidance on when to shut up.
Mail 15 MarchOne in 10 school children think the Queen invented the telephone and that the first man on the moon was Buzz Lightyear, the plastic space ranger from Toy Story; in addition almost one third believe Sir Isaac Newton discovered fire.
Sky 12 March On average, a single train carriage houses 1,000 cockroaches (which lurk in heating systems and behind ceilings panels), as well as 200 bed bugs, 200 fleas, 500 dust mites and 100 carpet beetles.
Rentokil 11 MarchThe Filofax is having a comeback, after nearly 30 years after its 1980s heyday; Selfridges has reported a 25% leap in sales in the leather-bound personal organisers over the past year.
Times 10 MarchA road in Derby is to be named after the Tomb Raider character Lara Croft; more than 27,000 people took part in a public vote and nine out ten opted for Lara Croft Way – the Tomb Raider games were designed by a local company.
Source: Mail 9 MarchWhen the first parking meters appeared 52 years ago, restrictions were supposed to be solely about traffic management and congestion – last year councils made about £500m profit from more than nine million parking tickets.
Source: Telegraph 5 MarchThe average life of a web page these days is between 44 and 77 days – a lot of the web simply disappears into the ether, but the British Library is doing a valuable job of preserving some traces of our digital lives in a time capsule.
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