5 NOVEMBER 1988, Page 30

` ...and statistics'

SHOULD you meet an Englishman abroad, chances are he's from the Gra- nada area. For statistics prove that our viewers take more package holidays than the rest of the country as a whole.

(Granada Television advertisement in Admap, September 1988) Many Englishmen go abroad on busi- ness as well as on holidays; nor are `package' holidays the only kind, though they may be the most popular. Moreover, for it to be true that when one meets an Englishman abroad, the `chances are he's from the Granada area', more than 50 per cent of all Englishmen abroad would have to be from there.

£20 goes to Mr D. Bradbury, of Herne Hill, London. Send examples to . . and statistics'; £20 for the best published; £10 for every other pub- lished.