Mapped: the UK’s road cycling blackspots

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How perilous is it to cycle where you live? Here’s a map showing Department for Transport data of all the road accidents in 2007 involving cyclists where injuries were reported to the police. There were just over 16,000 accidents in total - about 46 per day. [...]

The world’s bailouts: in piles of £10 notes

How far would the world’s various bailout packages stretch if you piled the amounts in £10 notes and then laid them flat on the earth’s surface? Quite a way, it turns out. (We asked the Bank of England for the heights of ‘banknote bundles’, then we did some maths,’ then set Google Earth to work.)
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