Condemned
A Norfolk woman was given the honour of pressing a button to demolish a tower at the Campbells soup factory where her father was scalded to death in 1995. Here are some other buildings demolished to expunge bad memories:
— 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, former home of Fred and Rose West
— 5 College Close, Soham, Cambridgeshire, house where Ian Huntley killed two ten-year-old girls in 2002
— Beb al-Azizlya Compound, Tripoli, former home of General Gaddafi
— Muiredge Cottage, Buckhaven, Fife, bungalow where Rab Thomson murdered his two children
— 12205 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, house where Anthony Sowell raped, murdered and buried 11 women
All at sea
The cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized after striking rocks off Tuscany. Here is how ships most often came to grief in the past ten years, according to investigations by the European Maritime Safety Agency:
Collision with other vessels 68
Grounding/stranding 53
Capsizing/listing 37
Fire/explosion 21
Loss of control 18
Contact with objects other than ships 13
Hull/failure 5
Still missing 1
The age of innocence
The Centre for Social Justice called for the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales to be raised from ten to 12. How does this compare with other countries?
Country/state Age of responsibility
North Carolina 6
Most other US states, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Singapore 7
Australia 10
Scotland, Netherlands 12
France, Poland 13
Germany, Italy, Russia, China 14
Norway, Sweden 15
Brazil, Belgium 18
Source: Unicef
Job shares
Only 24 out of 1,846 jobs at the BBC’s new ‘MediaCity’ in Salford went to local workers. Where do Salford people work?
Business/administration 17,300
Health 15,000
Education 10,700
Unemployed 9,900
Manufacturing 8,300
Construction 8,200
Retail 8,200
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