"British arrests soar 32% in Spain"

Time for some fun with numbers using the handy table at the end of this article:

British tourist visits to Spain = 17 million; Arrests = 2,032; Deaths = 1,591.

So that means only one-in-eight-thousand British tourists gets arrested (and one-in-eleven-thousand dies, whether of old age is not stated).

One-in-eight-thousand? What's the big fuss? Unfortunately there is no comparative for the previous year's visits, so we can't tell whether the arrests-per-tourist rate is up, down or stable.

And either French police are far more lenient on the Brits (highly unlikely), or the low arrest rate of one-in-a-hundred-thousand for visitors to France is because snobs go to France and chavs go to Spain.