Hello and welcome to a special, extra episode of more or less.

We take numbers and statistics and kind of chat about them.

In this digital edition, both Labour and the Conservatives want a big increase in the minimum

wage, could nearly a quarter of the workforce be getting a pay rise?

Is Drinking in Scotland going up or down?

And a listener emails to ask whether you can still fit the world's population on the

isle of white, time to revisit an experiment.

But first an interesting twin question.

Last month, loyal listener Graham Smith emailed us,

I draw to your attention a statistic quoted in the Times magazine.

50% of lone, identical twins take their own lives within two years of losing their sibling.

Very shocking if true.

I'd be most grateful if you'd investigate.

And investigate we did.

Ben Carter's here, hello Ben.

Hi, Tim.

So tell us a bit more about this piece in the Times magazine.

Well it featured an interview with David Loftus who suffered health problems in the wake

of the death of his identical twin at the age of 25.

But David told me in this Times piece that he'd been misquoted and what he actually said

was.

50% of identical twins who lose their twin do not survive two years.

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