previously you had to be 23 years old to qualify, but that s been reduced to 21. it has been just over £10 an hour just over $12. it s going up to just over £11 an hour. our business correspondent marc ashdown has the details. barista sam loves hisjob, but after paying his essential bills he s often left with just a few hundred pounds a month to live on. pay rises just help him stay afloat. i think they balance, because obviously everything else goes up in price so it sort of evens out every single year. maybe for, like, a month you ll be like, ooh, i ve got money this month! and then it lljust be, like the next month will be a bit of a rough one. workers across the uk in some of the lowest paid jobs are about to get a boost in their pay. from tomorrow, the national living wage is going up from £10.42 an hour to £11.44 an hour. that s an increase of 9.8%. the age at which a worker qualifies has also been reduced from 23 to 21 years old. the treasury says a full time
it s been described as the uk s most widespread miscarriage ofjustice the post office scandal. and now it s emerged the post office spent £100 million of public money fighting wrongly accused subpostmasters in court even though it knew its case was untrue. the bbc has uncovered a draft report that reveals that by 2017 the post office had seen evidence showing that the losses at post office branches could have been caused by remote access to its horizon computers by the japanese company fujitsu who supplied the system. despite that the post office s lawyers kept arguing until 2019 that theft or mistakes by subpostmasters must have been to blame. zoe conway has the story. in howey, mid wales, there is something missing. for years this house was the village post office, but not any more. this was all part the shop, and then the post office was at the end. joan bailey and her husband had to give up the jobs they loved after being accused of stealing. there was a £40,000
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good afternoon. proposals that could make scotland the first uk nation to legalise assisted dying have been introduced in the scottish parliament. it s an issue that provokes strong emotions with supporters of legalisation saying it would ease suffering, but opponents concerned some terminally ill people may feel under pressure to end their lives. the bill could be voted on next year. members of the scottish parliament have rejected previous attempts to legalise the practice, in 2010 and 2015. james cook, our scotland editor, has our top story. that s just my favourite photo of me and steve together. we were out at a barbecue. gillie s husband, steve, died less than a year ago. he had throat cancer and was 56 years old. gillie says even high quality palliative care did not ease his suffering. it wasn t a good death because he was distressed and he was upset. and it wasn t what he wanted. he wanted that choice, he just wanted to go to sleep. to me, it s quite obvious thatjus
star to embrace it. on newsnight at 10.30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories, plus a look tomorrow s front pages. good evening. it has emerged the post office spent £100 million of public money fighting wrongly accused sub postmasters in court, even though it knew its case was untrue. the bbc has uncovered a draft report that reveals that by 2017 the post office had seen evidence showing that the losses at post office branches could have been caused by remote access to its horizon computers by fujitsu, who supplied the system. despite that, the post office s lawyers kept arguing until 2019 that theft or mistakes by sub postmasters must have been to blame. zoe conway has the story. in howey, mid wales, there is something missing. for years this house was the village post office, but not any more. this was all part the shop, and then the post office was at the end. joan bailey and her husband had to give up the jobs they