Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 9.39am BST09:3rd3rd over: England 9-0 (Taylor 3, Edwards 6) Farrell again, and Edwards is a whisker away from chopping onto her stumps.
On the Essex coast, the UK Independence Party has just won its first parliamentary byelection; in Greater Manchester, they have come within a whisker of snatching a hitherto safe seat from Labour.
"What's more, these positive results have pushed it to within a whisker of traditional rival Capital for dominance in the all important breakfast slot.
Also at 8pm, Bill Oddie's Autumnwatch gave BBC1's Sky Cops a run for its money, coming within a whisker - or 400,000 viewers - of taking second place in the hour slot.
To Farage, it must seem like he is now a whisker away from fulfilling his long-held ambition of entering parliament – on his seventh attempt – finally joining the Westminster bunch he professes to despise.
But he has reason to be confident: he came within a whisker of avoiding the primary, falling just 32 votes short of the 60% threshold required to secure the nomination at the convention.
He made a vow to visit China during his first year as prime minister and is fulfilling it, by a whisker.
THOUGH his Likud party seemed to have lost the election on February 10th, by a whisker, to Tzipi Livni's Kadima, Binyamin Netanyahu has a good chance of becoming Israel's next prime minister.
The seasonally adjusted jobless total remained a whisker below 4m, but it increased to 9.6% of the labour force.
North America's fat cats remained a whisker richer, with $10.7 trillion between the 3.1m of them.More money, more sayThe global wealth pyramid has a very wide base and a sharp point.
But when Linnar Viik, an Estonian information-technology specialist, was recently recruiting software programmers in Finland, he was astonished to discover that the going rate there, at around 15,000 Finnish markka ($2,700) a month, was only a whisker higher than the rate earned by skilled programmers in Estonia.
