Some interesting numbers in this story from yesterdays Chronicle:
Newcastle Airport seizes a stash of weapons - Chronicle News - News - ChronicleLive
a total of 1,597,964 passengers and staff have been screened over the last six months at Newcastle Airport.
Of those 270,212 set off alarms as they walked through metal detectors and had to be searched.
A total of 2,869,623 items were screened by x-ray, an average of 1.8 items per passenger.
From the total number of staff and passengers screened at the airport 668,534 were between the peak hours of 4am and 8am.
Since January this year 88.6% of passengers have had their security check completed in under five minutes.
Only 1.6% have taken longer than ten minutes.