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
And coming up on the bbc news channel, hamdan parks is the oldest fixture in international football, as scotland take on england in a friendly, 150 years on from their first meeting. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Female surgeons working in nhs hospitals are subjected to a culture of Sexual Harassment and assaults by male colleagues, according to a major new report shared exclusively with bbc news. The research, described by the Royal College of surgeons as truly shocking, identifies a pattern of female trainees being abused by senior male surgeons. 0ur Health Correspondent James Gallagher reports. One example that ive got when i was a junior surgeon, so the person with the least power in the Operating Theatre is, i was i was assisting a consultant on a case. I guess hed got a bit sweaty but turned around and just buried his head right into my breasts. And i realised he was wiping his brow on me. And you just freeze, right . Why is his face in my cleavage, you know