inflation. what is very disheartening that s influence way inflation is labor cost. there is no need for this to influence inflation. it should have won up decades ago. since 1980, the economic policies and ep i put out a report before covid in 2020. it shows that since 1980, productivity has gone up like 61% and wages have only gone up 17%. that is over four decades. i there was a recent report that came out that talked about most of these companies, many of these companies, the four 50s, fortune 100, that are not paying minimum wage. profits are up by 49% and in one case, by 111,000%. wages only rose 1.6% on average. i wonder, when does this stop being company profits and turned into company
in maybe hopes that at some point maybe she would gain some interest in him. when they burrowed deeper into anna s finances, investigators found about $111,000 in her bank accounts. money cops thought her university job couldn t have provided. and the professor s generosity accounted for less than half of that. so, all of that money begged a lot of questions. let somebody else giving her money? i have no idea about that. this is new to me. if she had asked me, i would give her money. if she was in need, i would have given her money. the unaccounted for cash was just another piece in a puzzle that already featured more characters than a hollywood caper. this is a good whodunit case. we didn t know, a lot of the time, we had to rely on the investigation of the crime scene evidence to point as to who did it. coming up
scott is at sandwell aquatics centre in smethwick in the west midlands. yes, this is the only venue for the commonwealth games that has been purpose built for the vent. it is the sandwell aquatic centre it has cost round 90 million and it is officially open today, with the first few swimmers and divers taking to the quarter ahead of the games this summer. there will be 11 days of competition beginning on 28th july, 19 sports, including eight parasports making it is biggest parasports making it is biggest parasport programme at the commonwealth games and for the first time in a global multi sport event there will be more medal events for women than men. organisers hope that the commonwealth games also with the biggest and boldest commonwealth games in history, and we know that events like these are nothing without the volunteers, and i am joined by two of the 111,000 volunteers that will be helping the
for now, it s a call for caution, but new year celebrations are set to look very different in different parts of the uk. simon jones, bbc news. well let s take a closer look at the latest government data now there are a lot of figures that still aren t available because of the holiday period. but what we do know today is that there were 98,515 new infections recorded in england alone in the latest 24 hour period. that s after a record number almost 111,000 were recorded in england on christmas day and more than 100,000 on boxing day. 143 deaths were recorded in england, that s of people who died within 28 days of a positive test. in total nearly 32.5 million people have had a booster that s 56.5% of the uk population, aged over 12. 0ur political correspondent
because of the virus. now it s understood several hospital chief executives in england are saying their trusts are under the greatest sustained pressure they ve seen. there are now more than 111,000 patients with covid in hospitals in england. that s up almost 70% in a week. i ve spoken to staff who do find treating unvaccinated patientsl who are seriously unwell, l they do find that upsetting, particularly if, as from time to time, the patient says, i actually i wish i d been vaccinated all along. i so, we re not here tojudge, - we re here to treat and we ll treat whoever comes and requires our care and our attention there are some early encouraging signs, though. i was talking to london chief execs last week. what they were saying is they were seeing some very concerning daily increases of the numbers of people coming into hospital 9%, 15%, 9% on the 27th, 28 and 29th of december. but interestingly, in the last two days, those numbers have dropped,