it s wednesday, 31st january. our main story. scotland s former first minister, nicola sturgeon is due to give evidence about the decisions she took during the pandemic, when she appears before the covid inquiry today. ms sturgeon, who led the scottish response to the coronavirus outbreak is expected to face questions surrounding lockdowns, and missing whatsapp messages as the inquiry continues sitting in edinburgh. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. 1,044 positive cases were reported yesterday. nicola sturgeon was at the helm throughout scotland s pandemic response. as head of the scottish government, she was the key decision maker and first in the firing line when things went wrong. we will have made mistakes on all aspects of the handling. now about to be questioned on that handling and how decisions the truth, the whole truth. the former first minister s closest political ally amongst those who admitted texts between the pair no longer exist. are those t
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Heavy Lifting Equipment has begun to arrive in remote regions of the Atlas Mountains, which have been the hardest hit. Nick beake joined the first aid convoys to reach some of the most remote villages in the taroudant region. Finally, help is on its way to the most remote victims of this disaster. Werejoining a team of spanish firefighters, the first rescuers to negotiate in treacherous Mountain Road now that the path has been cleared. We reach the village of algou. In the hours after the quake, screams rang out here. But the trapped couldnt be freed. Then the screams turned to silence. These dogs are trained to find the living. Theyre detecting nothing. For three days now, the villagers in this place have been using their hands, and shovels to go through the rubble. Desperately trying to find their loved ones but the grim reality is there is now a stench of death that hangs in the air here. All hope of finding people alive has now surely vanished. And it is taking its toll. This fract
Official figures from the office of National Statistics showed regular pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 7. 8 in may tojuly compared with a year earlier matching the pace of inflation over the same period. However, the Unemployment Rate increased to 4. 3 between may and july compared to 4. 2 the month before, and Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Lets hear from our money and work reporter Peter Ruddick who gave us a breakdown of what the figures mean. Lets just run through the two main headlines and what they mean so firstly on wage growth, so as you say, it has finally caught up on inflation in most of the uk, at least, but it is just an average, not everyone will be feeling it. It means it will be following the first time in a year, wage growth. It is just an average, but also it is going to take more than one months figures to reverse the many changes, people in the uk have been experiencing, it is going to take quite a while for this to recover. The second caveat is wage growth