Spend a penny, spend a pound: why public toilets must be free
There’s gold in urine, it turns out. A Freedom of Information request into the revenue raised from pay-to-pee train station toilets revealed London Victoria station topped £2.3m last year, while Euston and King’s Cross netted £1.8m and £1.4m respectively. In the case of Liverpool Lime Street, more than half of the £400,000 raised by ransoming the public’s bladders was kept as profit.