11.   According to environmentalists, the government could become liable for claims of millions of pounds in compensation for lost business opportunities should the sites become de-notified.

12.   The men stole four and a half thousand pounds in cash before escaping in a stolen car.

13.   He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties.

14.   The robbers escaped with several thousand pounds in cash.

15.   A cleaner is sueing his former landlord for thousands of pounds in damages, after he was evicted illegally.

16.   The captain of Swindon Town football club has told a court how former manager Lou Macari paid him thousands of pounds in cash bonuses.

17.   Haulage companies say the French lorry drivers blockade is costing them thousands of pounds in lost business.

18.   An accommodation agency has closed down owing thousands of pounds in rent to landlords.

19.   A group of pensioners are sueing the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society after losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in a failed investment scheme.

20.   Birds cost his farm thousands of pounds in crop damage.