Girls' pocket money rockets to pounds 31 a month.(News)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: May 8, 1998 | Copyright information

TEENAGE girls today are richer than a decade ago, thanks to pocket money rising above the levels of inflation, a survey reported yesterday.

In 1985 the typical girl was out buying Madonna records with her pounds 6 a month pocket money.

If this had ...

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