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Drinking Problems?
These were just some of the newspaper headlines generated after the publication of a national drinking league table published earlier this month.

Some of Britain's most solidly middle-class towns - places like Guildford, Woking and Harrogate - were singled out as the areas with the highest levels of hazardous drinking.

Presenter Tim Harford spoke to Professor Mark Bellis, the director of the North West Public Health Observatory (one of the report's authors) about why those middle-class towns have been wrongly maligned. And how much alcohol is too much?

Making Millions From Maths

If you want to earn millions in the City these days, it pays to be good at maths. We look at life as a "quant".

William Hooper has made millions from maths
London has become an international centre for the world's most talented mathematicians who come here to earn a fortune working for banks and hedge funds.

These financial number crunchers are known as "quants" or quantitative analysts.

Weather Forecast

What is the chance of rain? Does our poor grasp of probability mean we get the weather forecasts we deserve?

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