as part of a special bbc series exploring the challenges and the opportunities facing britain s coastal towns. hello, i am simon mccoy, here in penzance as part of a special bbc series looking at the challenges and opportunities facing britain s coastal towns. new analysis from bbc news has shown that two thirds of coastal parliamentary constituencies have seen a real terms fall in wages since 2010. that means the average worker here in a seaside town like this is earning £1600 a year less than someone working inland. john kay has been to meet three generations of one family here in penzance to see what that means in practice. just a mile from the beach, the treneere estate, one of the poorest parts of britain. the coram family wanted to show us how they get by. we survive, day by day. dad mike is a full time security guard, and earns £18,000 per year. he is paid on a friday, and it is soon gone. by monday morning, i will be already into my overdraft. thursday i could be as
now on bbc news: coastal britain. hello, iam hello, i am simon mccoy here in van zandt as part of special bbc series looking at the challenges and opportunities facing britain s coastal towns. here in penzance. new analysis from bbc news has shown that two thirds of coastal parliamentary constituencies have seen a real terms falling wages since 2010. that means the average worker here in a seaside town like this is earning £1600 a year less than someone working in land. john kaye has been to meet three generations of one family here in penzance to see what that means in practice. just a mile from the beach. the trenayr estate, one of the poorest parts of britain. this family wanted to show us how they get by. we survived, day by day. dad mike isa get by. we survived, day by day. dad mike is a full time security guard. he earns £18,000 per year. he is paid ona he earns £18,000 per year. he is paid on a friday, and it is soon gone. by monday morning, i will be already int
at demonstrators marching in defiance of a police ban. and now on bbc news, simon mccoy reports from the cornish port of penzance as part of a special bbc series exploring the challenges and opportunities facing britain s coastal towns. hello, i am simon mccoy, here in penzance as part of a special bbc series looking at the challenges and opportunities facing britain s coastal towns. new analysis from bbc news has shown that two thirds of coastal parliamentary constituencies have seen a real terms fall in wages since 2010. that means the average worker here in a seaside town like this is earning £1600 a year less than someone working inland. john kay has been to meet three generations of one family here in penzance to see what that means in practice. just a mile from the beach, the treneere estate, one of the poorest parts of britain. the coram family wanted to show us how they get by. we survive, day by day. dad mike is a full time security guard, and earns £18,000 per yea
shops actually open. two people have been killed in a shooting outside a synagogue in eastern germany. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougall. hi, simon. scotland have kept their hopes of progressing in the rugby world cup alive with a nine try win over russia, they will hope to join wales who have officially qualified for the quarterfinals with a win over fiji. and nick miller has all the weather. gusty winds and showers, we see it all behind you, and that is the picture across much of the uk at the moment. are there any changes coming 7 how moment. are there any changes coming up? how is that weekend shaping up? answers for those questions later on. some of us have just got to get through the next few hours, nick! also coming up, the extraordinary operation to fix this teenager s jaw after it was split in two in a riding accident. hello, everyone. this is afternoon live. i m simon mccoy. we re live in penzance in cornwall, where we re continuing loo
now on bbc news, simon mccoy looks back at the challenges and opportunities faced by britain s coastal communities. hello, i m simon mccoy. this year, as part of a special series, we have looked at some of the main challenges and opportunities facing britain s coastal communities. we have been looking at a whole range of subjects, from employment and the future of tourism, to issues including poverty, loneliness and the environment. earlier this year, i went to penzance. we will hear from there later in the programme, but first, back in may, we visited great yarmouth in norfolk. three years ago, it was chosen as a pilot site for the introduction of universal credit a welfare reform which combines six benefits into a monthly payment. 0ne school in town was running its own food bank because it said some families did not have enough money to feed their own children. the government at the time said it could not be claimed that universal credit was driving the overall use of foo