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Portsmouth’s economy was improved by £373m in 2007 by 7.6 million visitors – around 35 times the city’s population.

£4m will be spent on free bus passes for elderly and disabled people between April 2008 and March 2009.

Our website averaged around 1,800 visits every day and more than 50,000 hits a month last year – with 90,905 visits in January 2008.

Portsmouth City Council’s Preventing Youth Offending Project – which supports 120 young people – is the only one of its kind in the country and one of two in the world.

There were more than one million visits to Portsmouth City Council’s nine libraries and Family Library Link in 2006/07, with 919,420 items borrowed including books and audio visual material.

In any one month, Portsmouth City Council’s Social Care is likely to have 1,669 clients receiving domiciliary care, 618 clients in permanent residential care and 231 clients in permanent nursing care.

More than six in every ten of our Portsmouth City Council’s city schools have achieved the nationally recognised Healthy School status.

100 anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs), 30 dispersal orders, five housing evictions, 20 Crack House Closures and over 200 Acceptable Behaviour Contracts have been awarded by the law courts to Portsmouth City Council, on behalf of partner agencies.

Portsmouth’s highest ever percentage 53.3%, of GCSE students achieved five or more A* to C grades in 2007.

Portsmouth City Council recycle around 18,578 tonnes of household waste a year - about the same weight as 2,700 bull elephants.

Portsmouth City Council own and manage over 15,300 council homes and a further 1,800 leasehold homes.

Portsmouth City Council delivered 80,000 meals on wheels in the past year.

8,000 calls/incidents were dealt with by Portsmouth City Council’s Community Wardens in 2007, across a wide variety of areas.

Portsmouth City Council provide over 550 courses and events for adult learners in the city.

Portsmouth City Council have resurfaced more than a million square metres of road in the last three years - enough to cover more than 140 Fratton Park pitches.

During the last two years, Portsmouth City Council have provided 570 new affordable homes.

In the in the last three years Portsmouth City Council refurbished about 300,000 square metres of pavement, alongside more than 300 roads.

The number of road accidents causing injury dropped by more than 11% in Portsmouth – from 811 to 719, between 2003 and 2006.

Portsmouth City Council will spend £30m over the next three years to maintain and improve our council homes and estates.

Portsmouth City Council decide on 1,500 planning applications every year – covering everything from home extensions to shopping centres.

Some 26,000 miles – more than the circumference of the world – were walked by people on Portsmouth City Council’s healthy walks in the last year.

600 voluntary and community sector organisations work with Portsmouth City Council.

7,500 school dinners are served in Portsmouth City Council school’s every weekday.

All 69 Portsmouth City Council’s schools offer extended services to the community including breakfast and after school clubs and sports activities.

Portsmouth City Council have replaced more than 7,300 old street lights, on about 800 roads, with brighter, more energy-efficient ones.

Portsmouth City Council’s closed circuit television control operators have access to 1,334 cameras.

Portsmouth City Council have more than 900 dog waste bins around the city, emptied three times a week.

24 Portsmouth City Council’s primary schools teach or are planning to teach a modern language to their junior pupils.

16 Portsmouth City Council schools have students as associate governors.

Portsmouth City Council's Enterprise Centres are home to over 100 start-up and small businesses. To find out more visit www.portsmouth.gov.uk/business.