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
It is raining outside. Its a lousy day. I hope its nice and sunny wherever you are on this may 16th, 2024. Welcome to hour two of fox friends well, the president ial debates are officially on but only on joe bidens terms. Leaving nancy pelosi wondering if its a good idea for them to meet at all. I myself would never recommend going on the stage with donald trump. But the president has decided thats what he wants to do. With just six months left until the election, biden might finally be addressing the border crisis but only after 4,000 illegal crossings per day. Brian right. Good job. And it is hereby decreed burritos and tacos are considered sandwiches in the court of law. Lawrence more pressing issues . Ainsley glad a judge got involved in that. Brian they had to steve eve. Lawrence fox friends begins right now. Mornings are better with friends. Ainsley former President Trump emphatically agreey to President Bidens laundry list ahead of novembers election Mark Meredith live at the wh
Sudanese capital after the time the cease fire do to start. of course, so much really pinned on the hopes of actually having a pause, getting to people to try and help, many people trapped in sellers without food and water and injured. 180 people killed so far in the intense fighting we have seen this sort of thing for the last four days. these are pictures from the capital earlier in the day, these plumes of smoke quite close to the airport. so much of the fighting has been focused around there but the pause wasn t supposed to have been agreed by the sudanese army and the rebels and was supposed to have started 35 minutes ago but the recent reports that gunfire is still being heard in the capital. and just a line from the capital. and just a line from the un, saying in the last of the wild that the humanitarian aid workers and facilities are continuing to be targeted in sedan
Qualify for the $1.7 million in campaign funds. she says i will certainly take my message out to different people in the southwest. why has she been unable to engage this guy? probably because she is leading and two is as we saw in the debate, it doesn t put her in the best type of light. she probably performs in better settings than that. but that long pause wasn t the only problematic thing in that debate. it also turned out that her opponent terry godard accused her that there were beheadings in the arizona desert in connection with illegal immigration. that was proven false, there really haven t been beheadings and you had those two things occur in that debate. she still remains the front-runner in this contest, but it will be interesting to watch the polls with all the