Carter, from Sunderland, says he can earn 89,000 a year for working just two hours a day. "People always smile when I say, 'I'm the Avon lady.'"

12 The number of marijuana plants found growing outside the front door of a police station in Minnesota. Janna Goerdt, of the Duluth News Tribune, had heard rumours of a mini-plantation outside the west Duluth police substation and decided to check it out. She found the plants, plucked one of the leaves, had it examined and confirmed it came from a marijuana plant. Lt John Beyer pointed out that he, his officers and the public use the backdoor entrance to the station. The front door was usually locked and not used. "Somebody has a sense of humour, " he said.

250 The minimum number of languages spoken in London.

Mayor Ken Livingstone has lined up free courses in rapstyle slang for tourists in Trafalgar Square to help them understand local teens.

The move comes after researchers revealed teens have swapped traditional Cockney rhyming slang for a new dialect dubbed 'Jafaican', which mixes English, Jamaican patois, Indian and West African dialects and is officially called Multicultural English. It uses words such as 'creps' for trainers, 'yard' for home and 'sick' or 'nang' for good.

10 The number of minutes for which the 50 passengers on an Air Canada Jazz flight had to watch their pilot bang on the plane's cockpit door after he got locked out while in the toilet. With about 20 minutes remaining of the two-and-a-half hour flight from Ottawa to Winnipeg, the pilot had left the cockpit to use the loo at the back of the plane, leaving the first officer in control. But when he returned, the door was stuck and had to be removed from its hinges to let him out.