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Skills Gap, Red Meat & The Baby Ashes Scandal

Start your day with the latest news and updates, with Jim and Jo at breakfast.

If you've been househunting recently, you'll know there's a problem with supply - but building industry leaders in the East Midlands are warning this morning that the creation of new housing developments are in danger of stalling - because there simply aren't enough people to do the building work. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has described the problem as the worst skills shortage in 11 years, with 90 percent of businesses they spoke to saying they had difficulty in finding enough bricklayers.
Also, does eating too much red meat give you cancer? Past research suggests there is a link, and a report out later today from the World Health Organisation has caused some papers to predict that food like bacon will be classed alongside cigarettes when it comes to health.
And, families caught up in the baby ashes scandal are today taking the first step in their fight for justice. Earlier this year a 大象传媒 investigation found that between 1996 and 2012, around 60 families in Shropshire were left without the ashes of their babies. Now, those bereaving parents are taking legal action.

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Mon 26 Oct 2015 06:00

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  • Mon 26 Oct 2015 06:00