The bottom line $11,000 How much the average fast-food worker earns in New York in a year. Most CEOs in the fast-food industry rake in $25,000 a day. £88m The value of the jewels stolen during a daylight raid on the Carlton hotel in Cannes. The haul, the biggest gems theft on record, was part of a temporary exhibition by diamond company Leviev. £28,680 What a pair of 450-year-old copper plates decorated by French enamellist Pierre Reymond have sold for at auction. Their previous owner, a collector in Dorset, had forgotten about them until they were rediscovered at the back of a cupboard covered in dust and mouse droppings. £2.4m How much the building containing Brompton Road station, a London Underground stop shut in 1934, is expected to be sold for. The 28,000 sq ft edifice also housed the command bunker for London’s anti-aircraft defences during the war. £17.9bn The sum Britain’s banks have collectively set aside to compensate victims of payment protection insurance mis-selling. 79 How many people London firefighters have had to free from handcuffs in the past three years. The recent surge in the figures of people reporting being trapped in handcuffs is being blamed on the popular erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
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