including pensions according to the think tank, the high pay centre. that s equivalent to wait for it £1,170 an hour 109 times the average worker whose median annual salary isjust under £35,000. chris roebuck is a global leadership expert who has worked in major organisations assessing senior leaders performance. i asked him if these huge payouts are justified. we will come back to that in a moment. but essentially he told me a little bit more about the talent poaching that the city had to be careful of unless they paid the ceos competitive salaries. this is what he told me. well, i think you need to ask the question. lobbyists are saying, yes, they are justified because we need to attract the best ceos to the uk or to keep them here. but, actually, this is not consistent across the world. if you look at some of the data on that ratio. if you say, if we re at 200, the us is at 270, but funnily enough german is only at 136, so the ratio of germany ceo play to empl
and ensuring certain industries decided to be key, kind of make sure that manufacturing capability exists at home. so this is the latest part of incentives designed to do that. they have $90 million to improve a plant in colorado springs, another 72 million to expand a factory in oregon. but again, the idea behind this is that these investments would invade enable microchip technology to triple its domestic production. that has been the goal here, to reduce dependence on foreign factories. find here, to reduce dependence on foreign factories. here, to reduce dependence on foreign factories. and news coming out of xerox foreign factories. and news coming out of xerox as foreign factories. and news coming out of xerox as well, foreign factories. and news coming out of xerox as well, what - foreign factories. and news coming out of xerox as well, what can - foreign factories. and news coming out of xerox as well, what can you | out of xerox as well, what can you tell us about t
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but getting to the final was a bigger achievement. earlier i spoke to lorraine winstanley who is a aemi professional dart player and head of youth development for target darts. i asked her what she made of luke littler s performance at just 16 years old. he was amazing, wasn t he? for me, it s not a surprise. his talent and the way he has performed. the biggest surprise for me is how he has taken the media in his stride and he has just kept his cool. edge of the seat stuff for the last three weeks, so very, very exciting times for him but i m so, so proud of him. i think it was a surprise to him every if it wasn t to you! i think he was hoping to just win one match and be home by christmas. but as you say, he did take it in his stride. do you think that was because there were no expectations of him? i think so. but he really has got his feet on the ground. he s very level headed and he loves playing darts. so his expectation was to win one
network around him has been brilliant for him. it is often down to the parents, rarely seen but they provide all that support in the background, don t they? he certainly has got people talking about the game, watching it, lots of people who have never watched a darts match before. what kind of a boost can he give to the game, do you think? he has catapulted youth darts to the forefront of every corner of the earth. for me, he has done for youth darts what fallon did for the women darts. so for me, he has captivated a whole new audience. people, like you say, who have never picked up a set of darts, never even entertained watching a game of darts, he has got the whole planet talking about it. so what a way to make your entrance into the professional game. what next for him, do you think? he has a busy 12 months coming up! i don t think his feet are going to touch the ground. i can imagine he will get so many