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To the complications. many workers who left because of brexit or covid did not return. the impact was felt across industries. with a shortage of lorry drivers, abattoir butchers, fruit pickers a nd restau ra nt staff. in hospitality and retail, the hgv driver shortage caused particular problems for suppliers, especially for items shipped in from overseas. it led to empty shelves and apologies to customers. a shortage of drivers means that you might find your bins are collected a bit less frequently than they were in the past, and it's part of a wider problem across the industry of a shortage o...

Universities had used non—disclosure agreements, known as ndas. now, the government is asking universities not to. so far, university college london and goldsmiths have signed up. a london council is training people to become lorry drivers to tackle the uk—wide shortage of hgv drivers. the road haulage association estimates there's a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the uk. the new scheme run by waltham forest council will support 20 trainees. learning lots of different new skills. first and foremost, safety, how the vehicle works, and then obviously, the skill set of dri...

A london council is training people to become lorry drivers to tackle the uk—wide shortage of hgv drivers. the road haulage association estimates there is a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the uk. the scheme run by waltham forest council will support 20 trainee drivers. learning lots of different new skills. first and foremost, safety, how the vehicle works, and then obviously, the skill set of driving a vehicle. doing something new, especially at my age, has been fantastic. more importantly, it's to be able to help the local community out for me, really, and drive that. s...

Attitude that now, it is all over, it's a bit of flu, then, that motivation will disappear, and again, in our county with have about 192,000 people, in the area, and there are still 20,000 unvaccinated, and those 20,000 unvaccinated not only are atrying, they are a core potentially for a new variant that might not be as kind as 0micron so we have to be aware there is a risk, so not saying it mustn't be done, that change can't happen but we have to really make sure that everyone understands what the implications of that change are, what the benefits are, and what the negatives are, because i ap...

And that is coincided with the worst decade for improvements in living standards in two centuries. so it is not at all true that if you have low interest rates that is good for people's living standards. but interest rates are supposed to do is, if you raise interest rates and makes it more expensive to borrow so you slow down economic activity, there's people decide against. but when you are talking about the difference between 0.25% and 0.5%, it is not ready to factor very heavily on those investment decisions. the bank of england is very concerned now about the... we have record quick rates...