The increase followed a 57.5 percent decline in May, when the surplus stood at $1.46 billion.

The increase for senior high students followed a significant decrease in past year heroin use between the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 school years.

The increase follows a 16 percent rise from the year before, the group said.

The increase follows a one percentage point rise adopted two years ago.

This increase - more than three minutes per call - follows six years in which the agency improved its response times.

They said additional increases could follow through the spring and into summer if the economy did not slow.

The increase follows a 10.1 percent gain for the first quarter.

The increase follows a 4.5 percent rise a year ago.

A steady increase followed over the next decade, and by 1986 that figure was in the region of £40,000.

The increase, if enacted in its present form, would follow four years of sharp tax increases.