with your chambers of commerce hat on, you are talking to local businesses, what sort of views are you getting on the whole migration issue from the businesses and firms you speak to? that s a good question, it s not top of their agenda. congestion, interest rates and inflation is heading for 10%, these affect them every day. but it s also worth noting that over 35% across the country fall in unemployment which means people are finding it difficult to find skilled workers. six or seven months ago it was it staff, hgv drivers, now it s right across sectors. there is some difficulty in finding the right people and we know british airways has offered people £1,000 to join them and easyjet i think has offered that to current workers to remain, so there is a shortage of workers and that affects us economically in this part of the world. david foley, thank
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universities had used non disclosure agreements, known as ndas. now, the government is asking universities not to. so far, university college london and goldsmiths have signed up. a london council is training people to become lorry drivers to tackle the uk wide shortage of hgv drivers. the road haulage association estimates there s a shortage of more than 100,000 qualified drivers in the uk. the new scheme run by waltham forest council will support 20 trainees. learning lots of different new skills. first and foremost, safety, how the vehicle works, and then obviously, the skill set of driving a vehicle. doing something new, especially at my age, has been fantastic. more importantly, it s to be able to help the local community out for me, really, and drive that. so i m looking forward to it. i m going to do a good job. well, lets see what s on the tubes. a good service apart from the northern line, which is part closed those major upgrade works meaning there s no service between mo