Killer facts
The World Health Organisation added processed meats to its list of ‘known’ carcinogens. A few of the other things which have been claimed to be linked to cancer in the past fortnight:
— Make-up in Halloween outfits (blamed by a laser surgery centre in New York)
— Chocolate (blamed by a colorectal surgeon at St George’s Hospital, Tooting)
— Deodorants (tabloid article — no source given)
— Hormone-replacement therapy (tabloid article — no source given)
— ‘Roundup’ herbicide (named in US lawsuit)
— Sand used in fracking, which is to say, sand (Friends of the Earth)
— Nail polish (tabloid article — no source given)
— Shampoo (US gynaecologist)
Sweet surrender
Who would pay the most sugar tax?
| Daily sugar intake in grams | |
| Male manual workers | 113g |
| Male non-manual | 95.2g |
| Female manual | 76.9g |
| Female non-manual | 73g |
Bubbling up
English wine production was said to be on course to break another record. How has it fared in recent years?
| 2014 | 6.3m bottles |
| 2013 | 4.45m bottles |
| 2012 | 1.03m bottles |
| 2011 | 3.02m bottles |
| 2010 | 4.05m bottles |
| 2009 | 3.18m bottles |
Halls of fame
Plans will shortly be announced for a new concert hall at the Barbican. Who has the largest regular classical music venues?
| LDS Conference Centre, Salt Lake City, Utah (home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) | 21,000 seats |
| Elliot Hall of Music, West Lafayette, Indiana | 6,005 seats |
| Royal Albert Hall | 5,500 seats |
| Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, New York | 5,100 seats |
| Koussevitzky Music Shed, Tanglewood, Massachusetts | 5,100 seats |
| Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens (open air) | 5,000 seats |
| Sala Palatului, Bucharest | 4,000 seats |
| Metropolitan Opera House, New York | 3,900 seats |
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