10 THINGS you did not know last week.
The BBC confirmed plans to close five of its 32 World Service language services - 650 jobs will be lost from a workforce of 2,400 over the next three years - in a bid to save £46m a year; the BBC estimates audiences will fall by from 180 million to 150 million a week. Mail
Paying for a sandwich via mobile will soon be possible in the UK as operator Orange announced a mobile payment service, in partnership with payments firm Barclaycard. FT
Former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Stuart Rose is to help the government gauge UK well-being, as part of David Cameron's project to measure "happiness". BBC
Fraud costs the UK economy £38bn a year, with more than half of that suffered by the public sector; the £21bn cost of public sector fraud could pay for 800 secondary schools or 615,000 nurses. The National Fraud Office
The latest figures show that one in five new graduates are now out of work, the highest number for a decades; it comes as the Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King warned that households are facing the most prolonged fall in living standards for eighty years. BBC
Top hats have been fashionable for almost 200 years, but when the first one was worn in 1797 by James Heatherington, he was immediately arrested and fined 50 pounds for behaving in a manner 'calculated to frighten timid people'. QI
Every year, 8 million people worldwide don’t live to see their fifth birthday. Save the Children
69% of the public think school league tables should be based on core academic subjects, such as English, maths, science, humanities and languages; 51% support the dead of allowing schools to convert to academies. YouGov
Social media is changing the way we date – 70% of women and 63% of men use it to screen potential partners; 69% of people have been asked out by text and 49% through Facebook. Mail
We are spending £20m on restoring Admiral Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory – with the cutbacks announced in the Strategic Defence Review, perhaps there is a plan to re-float it…! TEN