21.   Trade figures for July put Britain one and a half billion pounds in the red.

22.   A retired Ministry of Defence official has gone on trial accused of accepting a million and a half pounds in bribes to award arms contracts abroad.

23.   Incendiary devices have caused millions of pounds in damage.

24.   Meanwhile back at Tenbury, the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight.

25.   They are expected to raise hundreds of pounds in sponsorship for the special care baby unit at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton.

26.   The thieves also snatched a television, video recorder and hundreds of pounds in cash.

27.   During the journey they raised thousands of pounds in sponsorship for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

28.   Which is costing newspapers tens of millions of pounds in investment.

29.   Charities have already threatened to withdraw millions of pounds in top-up payments for new clients moving into residential care.

30.   He believes that sheep farmers who think only about the pound in their pocket could be doing themselves a great disservice.