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Here's Tim Halford.

Hello and welcome to more or less the programme which boldly goes where no statistics programme

has gone before.

This week we inspect the claims the UK Treasury and the Scottish Government make about

the economics of an independent Scotland, discover that millions of scientific papers might

be incorrect and test the veracity of this claim.

But first, this week's big story.

Even Nigel Farage cannot prevent the annual pop-tacular that is the Eurovision song contest.

This year, high hopes were riding on the UK's Bonnie Tyler.

But alas, to no avail.

Bonnie came 19th out of 26th.

The UK hasn't won the contest since 1997 and we haven't really come close for over a decade.

Now many people believe the contest has become an overly political fast since a large number

of countries from what was once the Soviet bloc started entering and rather shockingly

voting for each other.

Will the 12 go to Moldova, they normally do?

And finally, our 12 points go to Moldova.

Yep, there we go.

Of course the UK has, over the years, tended to vote for Irish songs, while Ireland has,

over the years, tended to vote for the UK, but I'm sure that's a totally different

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