Of the fiercest in the game live from glasgow. First, heres ray to kick us off with the news headunes. Headlines. Thank you both. Good thank you both. Good afternoon. 12 01. Our top stories. The chancellor is stories. The chancellor is defending the british job market despite rising unemployment figures released today across the uk, unemployment rose by 0. 1, reaching 4. 3 in july. Meanwhile Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Jeremy hunt says that remains, quote, below many of our international peers. Meanwhile the average growth in pay meanwhile the average growth in pay remained at a record high of 7. 8. Shadow Business Employment and levelling up secretary Justin Madders says more needs to be done. There are strong economic headwinds that have been troubling the economy for some time, but i think one of the things were very clear about is the only way we are going to get out of this this mess weve been in really for 13 years now. Weve with stagnant growth is to actually turbo ch
Small boats crisis. And that story about the surgeons is so shocking. These surgeons is so shocking. These women surgeons are being sexually assaulted in the operating theatre. Sometimes dunng operating theatre. Sometimes during surgery. How appalling is that . That . Its quite mind blowing. You its quite mind blowing. You have to stay tuned really to hear the details of all of that. And Everything Else were talking about this morning. Vaiews gbnews. Com is the email address. Touch address. Please get in touch with us. First, here is the with us. But first, here is the news with ray addison. News with ray addison. Thanks. Both good morning. 931 our top stories. The 931 our top stories. The chancellor is defending the british job market despite rising unemployment figures released today across the uk. Unemployment rose by 0. 1, reaching 4. 3 in july, while Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Jeremy hunt says that remains below many of our international peers. Meanwhile average growth
Business associations appealed to the president and other authorities to ensure crucial reforms in Ukraine. Twenty-one Ukrainian business associations, including IT-Ukraine Association, CEO Club, Ukrainian Business Council, Chamber of Commerce and others, made a public appeal to the president, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada with a demand to ensure crucial steps for business are taken. The list of requirements from business includes three institutional reforms, in particular the restart of the Bureau of Economic Security (with a competitive selection of a new director that includes a decisive vote of the international representatives and recertification of staff) and the restart of the State Customs Service.