Highland Council may sell a bust abroad unless Invergordon's museum raises £3.1m by 1 December. Ten times since 2012 a UK buyer outside national and university museums got more time, and it bought the work four times but not the other six.
UK rents rose 3.8% in the year to September. In four of five monthly figures since a new law in England began in May, UK rent growth did not fall below the month before, and once, for May, it fell from 3.5% to 3.3%.
Fewer UK workers say they would work harder than needed. In four of five recent quick ONS estimates after a weak quarter, output per hour was up on a year earlier, and once, in 2022, it was down.
Artificial, a dark film about OpenAI, will compete as a comedy at the Golden Globes. Of nine serious festival films entered this way in 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2025, none won the comedy prize.
Godzilla Minus Zero opens in North America on 6 November. $28 million would be 2.45 times the first film's opening. Four of ten sequels to films not in English grew that much, and six did not.
Wales will not start its £10 a week Cynnal payment until the UK government says it is free of tax and benefit cuts. Once in six requests from Scotland or Wales did the UK government agree within 77 days. Three times it first said no.
US core prices rose 0.3% in August and September while petrol prices jumped. In five past months like this, the next figure fell 0.1 points once, stayed the same twice and rose twice. October's figure comes out on 25 November.
Okta is the third company to join the S&P 500 early since 1 October. Six of nine times after two or more companies joined early, S&P's next review added two or three more, and three times none.
UK diesel hit a record 200.04p a litre on 12 October and has eased a little since. Four of six times in 2022, a fuel price high like this one was beaten within seven weeks, and twice the price fell away.
UK house price growth slowed to 0.5% in October, from 0.8% in September. Six of seven times since 2010 that growth fell twice in a row to under 1%, Nationwide's next figure showed no yearly fall, and once it did.
EU leaders must choose who follows Christine Lagarde at the European Central Bank. Two of four times, they chose the early favourite for the job, and twice they picked someone else, Lagarde herself in 2019.
Network Rail closes Paddington, Birmingham New Street and the line into Liverpool Street over Christmas. Three of five times it reopened a big London station in full on the morning it named. Once it was hours late and once a day late.
James Comey says a charge of leaking secrets is not valid because a prosecutor filed it alone, without a grand jury. In nine past US fights like this, judges threw out the charge three times and refused six times.
Rangers play Hibernian in the Scottish League Cup final on 13 December. Six of seven times Rangers or Celtic met a smaller club in this final with a manager chasing his first trophy there, they won, and once they lost on penalties.
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