but not fast enough to keep up with price rises. our economics correspondent, andy verity, has more details. all good? business has been challenging, up and down. it has been consistently inconsistent. one day we are super busy, we can t keep up. the next day we don t have any work on. a year ago, construction companies like this builder of grand design style renovations, based near heathrow airport, were struggling to cope with the surge in demand for new projects as the economy bounced back from the pandemic. there was no lack of work, but profits were squeezed by the rocketing cost of raw materials and the shortage of skilled staff that sent wages soaring. it is difficult to meet demand when there is also less money in the jobs because the cost of labour has risen so much. so we have labourers earning the money which plumbers and carpenters were earning, like, two and a half, three years ago. but everybody wants the job to be cheaper because they have no certainty and the
Degree, again, ahead of the rain in the south west we could see temperatures of 1a or 15, but that rain will move north war, this evening and overnight, across england and wales, up into scotland, and Northern Ireland later on in the night. Night. And there will be a lot of cloud round, less cold than last night. We have the rain to begin with though, in northern england, that will move northwards, stay wet for much of scotland and also for Northern Ireland, and there could be heavier showers in northern england, the odd shower further south but hopefully a bit more sunshine than today. Temperatures not changing too much, really, for england and wales but further north in scotland and Northern Ireland, it may be just that bit colder, tomorrow, in a north easterly wind. But we have got the winds from the South West Bringing in more rain you can see it is one area of low pressure, after another, after another and we will see more rain pushing across england and wales on wednesday night.
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To advise on immediate measures to improve building safety. The Bank Of England issues a financial warning, as Consumer Borrowing rises at its fastest rate in more than a decade. Google is fined more than £2 billion by the European Commission for illegally favouring its own shopping services. And 50 years on from the first cash machine, we take a look at the changing face of banking. Hello, good evening. Welcome to Bbc News At Five. Scotlands First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said her government is delaying plans for a second Independence Referendum. Speaking in holyrood, she said she Still Believes the country needs to be given a choice about its future, but not until after the Brexit Process. She said that since the general election, in which the snp lost 21 seats, she had listened to voters, and understood their concerns about another poll. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon is in edinburgh. Nicola sturgeon call this a reset, but what in effect i think it means is whilst a
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