It was the fourth time in a row the retail figures had shown a year-on-year drop in the amount people were buying.
The new figures come just weeks after figures showed that all 22 councils in Wales had met targets on the amount of biodegradable waste they could send to landfill sites.
The normal figures for the amount of immigrants in Libya are something between one and a half to two million.
The amount of meat eaten by people in the UK stood at 85.8kg each in 2007, according to official figures.
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Figures also showed the total amount of municipal waste generated in Wales has generally decreased, with the tonnage 3% lower for April to June 2012 than for the same quarter in 2011.
Yet, since the press has spent decades reprinting such data unquestioningly, cross-checking facts and figures is a relatively new practice: one bank robbery was recently reported in five different papers with five different figures for the amount stolen.
Bank of England figures published earlier this month showed that in July the total amount of personal debt in the UK fell for the first time since records began in 1993 as people reduced their mortgage borrowing.
Those GDP figures I mentioned earlier showed that the small amount of growth the UK had in 2012 was all thanks to public and private consumption.
Federal transportation figures show 19 injuries and 16 accidents last year, the second highest amount reported in the last 10 years.
Mr Dutta said the figures did not deal with the amount of money the commissioner spent on his own lawyers in defending claims of police misconduct.
Those figures, coupled with a few articles in the tech blogs, have created a tremendous amount of buzz around the network.
Official figures showed the amount of renewable power increased by a fifth, while the total power generated in Scotland went up by 3%.
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