| Three more than last year, making it the highest in seven years. The Daily Mail is trying to scandalize the reader by using such a small sample size rather than giving the historical perspective of the last fifty or one hundred years. And since they are giving the years as April to March, they could have as easily done calendar years (January-December), and got nearly to the present day — surely British government statistics have been calculated through the end of the year, or very nearly. |