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Your support makes all the difference.British taxpayers' weekly payments to Germany
for military base costs: pounds 19,304,000
Designated marine biological sites of special
scientific interest in Britain: 0
Dolphins found drowned by fishnets in Cornwall
and Devon in the first three months of 1992: 105
Records available of the number of small cetaceans (dolphins, etc) caught in UK fishing since 1975: 0
Juggernaut-loads of redundant Ministry of Defence ammunition and stocks dumped 400 miles off Land's End since 1988: 730
British residents per Whitehall inspector of pollution: 345,679
Taxes spent per week on the Royal Yacht
Britannia: pounds 220,384
Farmers paid to develop their land for equestrian activities 1988-90: 749
Number of years for the percentage of workers employed in agriculture to fall from 50 to 10 in Great Britain: 160
In Italy: 60
Foreign debtors' payments to UK banks
in 1980: pounds 460,000,000
In 1990: pounds 1,809,000,000
Estimate of world women who are
illiterate: 640,000,000
Record car wheel-clamping charge, at
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: pounds 240
Pet dogs in the USA: 54,500,000
Sources: RM/HMSO The Pink Book 1991; Dept of the Environment; ibid; MAFF Hansard 211, 51; RM/Ministry of Defence (load 22 tonnes); RM/Dept of the Environment; RM/Harry Cohen MP/Ministry of Defence Hans 211,51; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Geography No 336; ibid; HMSO The Pink Book 1991; ibid; UN; John Spellar MP; Euromonitor Consumer USA 1992
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