The deficit fairy
A six-year-old girl from Manchester, Niamh Riley, sent David Cameron a pound coin left by the tooth fairy to help pay off the deficit. If all children followed her example, how near would we be?
—With 790,000 children born a year, each with 20 milk teeth, this would raise £15.8
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