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yesterday was...

Thursday 05 October 1995 23:02 BST
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a good day for:

Promiscuous kangaroos, with the news that the Sydney-based Cooperative Research Centre for the Conservation and Management of Marsupials hopes to have developed a contraceptive pill for kangaroos within five years.

a bad day for:

Rex Dawkins, a New Zealander who a year ago invested nearly pounds 200 in a set of car number plates that read OJGILT. "I don't think they've got a lot of value now," he said. "Unless there's a retrial."

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