The court was told that he had wired instructions from a hotel in St Tropez to his City dealers to buy 1,000 tonnes of coca at a cost of £343,000, but the price fell and he had lost £36,000.
The Times subs might want to revist that. Entirely, and obviously, glorious though it is as a typo.
Rod Stewart was looking well in that picture above the article.
2,000,000 lbs. for the equivalent of somewhere around $550,000, or $0.26 per lb. And he lost money when he sold it? Makes complete sense.
I no longer wonder what happened to the kids that rode in the short bus. I’m sure they all ended up with a journalism degree and a job in a news room.