11.   New figures show spending on social security in Britain will rise by nearly fourteen billion pounds by the turn of the century even if unemployment falls.

12.   The National Radiological Protection Board wants people to take notice of the new figures but not to panic about them.

13.   New figures show an overall increase of twenty five per cent in all car crime in that one area.

14.   New figures show that more than ten criminal offences are committed every minute in England and Wales.

15.   New figures have shown that a third more businesses went to the wall during nineteen ninety-two, with this region the hardest hit.

16.   COT deaths were more than halved last year after a national campaign to sleep babies on their back, new figures show today.

17.   Shock increase in young mums-to-be NEW figures have revealed a big rise in the number of teenage pregnancies in Hartlepool.

18.   NEW figures which show only one Northerner is still waiting for hospital treatment after two years were yesterday greeted with caution.

19.   Officials are preparing new figures after accepting that estimates by their own consultants, Touche Ross, are inaccurate.

20.   COMPANY failures in England and Wales have soared to their highest level since the recession started more than two years ago, according to new figures out yesterday.