as posted to the Luton forum:
Luton has also now overtaken Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh on year on year figures and is now in 5th place.
Carrying on the thread about how Luton has overtaken Birmingham here are the figures over the last 10 years .
July 1997 2,933,000 5,614,000
July 1998 3,661,000 6,307,000
July 1999 4,798,000 6,819,000
July 2000 5,835,000 7,210,000
July 2001 6,462,000 7,736,000
July 2002 6,396,000 7,628,000
July 2003 6,731,000 8,543,000
July 2004 7,026,000 8,997,000
July 2005 8,619,000 8,964,000
July 2006 9,353,390 9,245,072
Birmingham up 64% over a 10 year period while Luton is up 219% which is a growth rate nearly 4 times higher than Birmingham.