QUOTE of the week must be a comment by British research firm, Mintel, on people's spending habits in Britain. It said the £5 billion a year lottery outlay was creating an economic tremor no one yet fully understands".

The survey on British lifestyles also questioned how fast the population was coming to terms with computers, the Internet and multimedia technology. It found that almost one-fifth of those questioned when the survey was carried out last year were technophobes those with no understanding or interest - compared with 14 per cent the previous year.