Page 31 - Stephen Smith News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Yet, today it seems there was. Baby steps for some sectors were announced, the rest, were told, will follow. So, is this the beginning of the end of austerity . Prison staff will see their average salary go up. With todays 1. 2 rise, they can expect to take home an additional £706. Police officers receive on average £41,500. Today, they were told they would get a 1 pay rise, and a 1 bonus, meaning they could take home an additional £830 a year. Now, if we look at this graph from the ons, we can see that Public Sector pay a decade ago largely matched private pay that is, until just after the...

One of the themes that emerged in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire was the link between the disaster and austerity. Thats an idea thats particularly galling, given just how rich the royal borough of kensington and chelsea actually is. Im here in elm park gardens, which is a road about three miles south from Grenfell Tower, on the other side of the borough. The average Property Price here is £1. 8 million. But its actually here that the real story of the grenfell fire begins. You see, on this road, the council sold off a load of its property, including some of these basement flats. The...

Where they were this morning. Not doing a lot as we wrap up the week. The nasdaq, one point this morning up almost 5 10 of 1 , half of 1 , and now off of those. Green on the screen here. Apple, forw movers, example, one of the biggest gainers, and oracle, one of the as they arers here missing on some of the cloud revenue. That is what i am looking at. Lets recap for the week. Come over and my terminal, you will see we are much higher on the week for all three of the major indices, that is after last week when we saw some losses. We have some risk off dealing last week, revisiting that 2 level ...

The brexit formalities now. And the conservatives are being accused today of making an almighty mess of the process. For one thing, we had another huge personnel change. The Civil Service in charge of the department has been moved. Then, on top of that, conservative Party Dynamics are competent in the process. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, marked out this vision of brexit over the weekend and then slipped away to the un in new york. To reason they offered a tautology in response to be. Auris is auris, she said. It is hard enough bargaining with Michel Barnier and the eu without argument...

We asked the spectators Fraser Nelson and a professor who worked alongsidejohn mcdonnell. Music. Also tonight. Just how much fun did those bunnies really have . As the death of hugh hefner is announced, we ask if playboy can be seen as a force for emancipation. And this. He said he was stepping down to avoid causing embarrassment to the Prime Minister and to his colleagues in government. Alan hollinghurst on his new book, the sparsholt affair. The book opens in oxford in 1940 at the time of the blackout. We end up in the book at the end of 2013 and the whole nations personal privacy has radica...