1.   By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work.

2.   For the swallowers, being paid thousands of dollars per trip is hardly easy money.

3.   Tom Wolfe would be paid thousands of dollars for making up stuff like this.

4.   Human smugglers who are paid thousands of dollars to take Afghans to Western Europe instead often abandon them in Hungary.

5.   They point to survivors in Western countries who are being paid thousands of dollars by Germany.

6.   They point to survivors in Western countries who are being paid thousands of dollars by Germany, while they have received only a few hundred dollars.

7.   Initial investigations suggested that the gang was set to smuggle the children to Malta where they would be paid thousands of dollars for each one, he said.