The Independent has a piece about the cost of Christmas:

£20m: Amount made by Mark Tilden, British robot expert who invented Robosapien, this year's hit toy

£20m: Amount nations of sub-Saharan Africa are paying in debt to developed world every 16 hours

30,525: Number of miles your Christmas dinner will have travelled to reach your table - vegetables alone are likely to have come 15,800 miles

4.2%: Rise in murder rate over Christmas

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