What’s 500,000 people and £30m between friends?

The London Paper, 22 December: “about 1.5 million shoppers” in Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street over the weekend, spending “£150 million”.

London Lite, 22 December: “up to one million shoppers” in Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street over the weekend, spending “£120 million”.

P.S. Over at the Daily Mail, 22 December it was a mere “140,000 shoppers” in Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street over the weekend.