UK News 05-11-2004 who: Office for National Statistics what: Says 191,000 British citizens left the country when: Last year snippet: "About 513,000 people arrived from abroad to stay for more than a year - a net immigration total of 151,000, roughly the same as in 2002," says The Telegraph. "Of the arrivals, 236,000 were non-British, compared with 107,000 in 1997 when Labour took office. The rest were Britons coming home." Meanwhile, The Independent says 2004 should be a record year for tourism with a projected 26.34million people travelling here from abroad but ironically The Telegraph says "the great British package holiday appears to be going out of fashion" after 22million of us took our holidays abroad in 2003. In other statistics news, The Independent`s social affairs correspondent, Maxine Frith, says a record number of men are trying to lose weight. [... more]

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