the high street is returning to life but not quite as normal. these vacancy notices signs of our times as employers struggle to keep up with demand returning but without the same number of workers after a combination of the pandemic and new post—brexit restrictions on european workers. i think it's a perfect storm of lots of things. you know, we've had a pandemic, people have not been moving jobs so people have been kind of sticking where they are. so you've got a lack of candidate movement. you've got a lot of eu workers that went home during the pandemic and actually, it's really difficult to get back if you want to. and there are skill shortages, you know, you're going back to a lack of apprenticeships from a long time ago that haven't been coming through. and almost i think the pandemic has accelerated a problem that was already underlying. for now, not all the vacancies match where the jobless are, nor their skills. but for those workers with in demand skills, such as here in construction, wages are starting to rise. faisal islam, bbc news. astronomers have captured some