Everyone loves meerkats don’t they?  Cute and fluffy with their cheeky little faces, they are in no way annoying or irritating.  So here’s a thought.  When it comes to paying off your managing director, why not give them a cuddly meerkat instead of a £450,000 pay-off?  They will love the meerkat (who wouldn’t?) and you can then invest the remaining £449,990 in improving your public libraries. Simples. (Did I just say that? Somebody shoot me…)

Library saving rating: 4/5 

(Source: Flickr / anemoneprojectors)