From killer whales to labrador in 21 steps

Estimated age ok Keiko, the six-tonne killer wale star of the free Willy films, who was buried in a secret ceremony in Norway in mid December after dying of pneumonia  27

Number of month Keiko – who at the age of two was captured in Iceland and put in a Mexican water park – spent in the wild before he died 18

Average life expectancy of killer whales in the wild 35

Number of free Willy films – in which a young boy befriends a killer whale and successfully encourage him to jump over an aquarium wall to ocean freedom – that Keiko, whose Keiko whose name means ‘lucky one’ in Japanese starred in 3

Amount of money the Ocean futures foundation spent returning him to the wild £14.1m

Number of people who were amended in custody awaiting trial  in 2002 58,000

% increase of the number remanded in 2001 – under UK law you are innocent until proven guilty 10

Number who were subsequently acquitted or whose proceedings were terminated, with little or no compensation  11,742

Number of officially recognised refugee that were living in the UK in 2001 169,370

Number of officially recognised refugee that were living in Germany in the same year 988,500

Number of officially recognised refugee that were living in Iran in the same year 1.9m

Number of officially recognised refugee that were living in Pakistan in the same year 2.2m

Number of applicant for asylum the UK had inn 2001 71,365

Number of individual granted asylum 11,180

Number of the 10 largest refugee movement in 2001 that were made between two third countries 9

Number of five countries of origin that provided the most asylum applicant of 2001 to the UK that UK companies with UK government assistance have sold arms to in the last 10 years 5

% drop in the number of King Charles spaniel puppies  registered in the UK between 1993 and 2002 43

% drop in the number of Yorkshire terrier puppies registered in the UK between 1993 and 2002 68

Number of British breed of dog with fewer than 100 puppies registered in 2002 – the Kennel club has noted a sharp increase in large foreign breed being registered and a drop in many smaller British breed 12

Number of these that are terrier breeds 5

Number of Labrador registered last year – Britain most popular dog 35,000

Compiled by TomTempleton

1-4 BBC 5 Ocean Future foundation 6-8 Prison Statistic England and Wales 9-16 Medialens/Mattew Randall 17-21 Kennel Club of great Britain

Published in the Observer Magazine (18-01-2004)