than you know the cuts that we saw during the pandemic and trying to refill these jobs? i mean, is there just lesser interest in people in the air traffic controller positions? no there s great interest because the position the average air traffic controller, this is average. this is not the high peak high workload areas make 130,000 year. but the faa has a lot of restrictions that they want people under 30. they have provisions where you are they want you to retire at age 56. they have all these provisions and then also, you don t have to go to the f the faa academy can go. too many colleges have air traffic controller training. there are lots of ways to get on board. but once you re on board as an air traffic control of the problem is, do you have a long learning curve? the likes to say you re in training for a year, even after you re trained, so the problem is that they should have been training even through the pandemic. during the pandemic. they cut their hiring and half from almo
this is fifield path, the row of terraces where avril used to live. most were sold under right to buy. more than half are now rented out by private landlords. michael has been living in this room for five years. and you can see where they patched it up. it has always been leaking. so i had to move the bed forward. why? because the water was dripping on my head. how many times have they been round? to do the roof, about five times. different people. his rent of £910 a month is paid by housing benefit. one of six tenants in another carved up former council house.
his rent of £910 a month is paid by housing benefit. one of six tenants in another carved up former council house. this landlord owns the property with his wife. we think they are getting around £60,000 rent a year from michael s house alone, and most of that comes from housing benefit. this isn t the only property landlord has on the street. he has three more of these former council homes and they are all divided into six little flats. from those 2a tiny bedsits he is getting around £250,000 a year in rent. one of his properties avril s old council house.
i fear, in the next few days. we continue our week very much as we ve started, this big area of high pressure dominating, lots of cloud trapped underneath it. subtle changes to end the week, and take us into the weekend, may even see things turning colder still as we switch round to a direct northerly airstream by saturday. here we are, though, on this wednesday with a northeasterly airstream still pulling plenty of cloud across the uk. still pulling plenty some more showers to come through the day today into the northeast of england, some getting into the midlands across into south wales. i think a bit brighter, though, towards the far southeast. still some decent sunshine to come across western scotland. temperatures, as we d read them on the thermometer 8, 9,10 as it will feel in the north easterly wind around the five or six degree mark.
as a government, we re concerned about support for reconstruction and recovering everything that has been lost. the most important thing is to save lives. there are fears that strong winds predicted over the next few days could scorch this landscape further. reconstruction and recovery of these farming areas at least seemingly a longer term goal. stephanie prentice, bbc news. here in the uk, lancashire police investigating the disappearance of mother of two nicola bulley believe she fell into a river. a major search for 45 year old continues, but no trace of her has been found. nicola was seen by a fellow dog walker last friday morning shortly before 9am. she was last seen at 910am, in a field further along the riverbank. at 9:20 police have now established her phone became