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Trouble is, that if there's a shortage of people with the right qualities, how will rising salaries help? Surely it just moves the few able/capable people around, i.e. moving from one employer to another, which just leaves other employers short-staffed. The answer must be to either improve...

It sounds very similar to the NHS with an artificial/internal market that sometimes creates unnecessary complication and negative outcomes. Created with the best of intentions but maybe a lack of critical thinking as to the "unforeseen" consequences which are often entirely foreseeable but...

If people don't use the existing P&R to go into Lancaster, there's little chance of them using it to go to Morecambe. As said above, the car park is mainly for people doing car shares and relatively few people use the shuttle bus into Lancaster. (Finishing early so useless for late finishing...

I've watched all the air crash investigation programs, and found them fascinating. Given that cars (and most trains) are pretty well fully controlled by computers these days, I wonder why we don't have the equivalent of the black (orange) box they have on aircraft to record a car/train's speed...

Working out the "cost" of anything, such as a RAIB investigation, is never going to be an exact science. Taking total costs and dividing it into the number of investigations is a lazy/simplistic average which has no practical use and shouldn't ever be used as anything more than for passing...

It's a great shame that none of the charter firms appear interested in running "specials" for sporting events, like football matches. It's crazy that it's so difficult to get public transport from the Northern towns/cities to football matches at Wembley, meaning huge numbers of fans travel on...

Yes, along with the Windermere line to reduce the need for diesels between Manchester and Cumbria. I'd also love (I know it won't happen) to see the Carnforth to Skipton (Bentham) line electrified to enable an increased and/or faster service as an alternative/relief to the...

Tax avoidance = tax planning = legal Tax evasion = illegal That's all there is to it.

Difference is that most developed countries are also suffering Covid and massively damaged economies. Wealth is relative, not absolute, so if other countries are doing/suffering the same as us, the differential is unchanged, hence wealth markers such as exchange rates won't change. It would...

More importantly, what about the small tins of Heinz beans and sausages that they've stopped producing?

I've lost two stones since February. I used to drive to work and then buy unhealthy lunches/snacks. Due to covid, my favourite junk food shops have been closed so I've got into the habit of taking a much simpler/cheaper packed lunch. Due to the good weather, I've been walking to/from work. I...

Or perhaps there were no spikes because few, if any, of those attending were infectious, after several weeks of lockdown, when cases in the community were low. If no one was contagious at that time, then there'd be no spreading. But when numbers of infectious increase again, the risk of it...

I'm more worried about the minority who don't want to take any precautions at all, don't respect the majority who do wish to take precautions, and think everything should just return to exactly how it was back in January. The ones who have completely forgotten that schools and hospitals were...

No, but they could have made more use of the army thus freeing up police to actually do their core job, of policing the streets. Don't know about other areas, but around here, there've been endless social media reports proudly showing police taking selfies in empty parks, using police vans to...

Most government ministers (of all parties) and senior civil servants are living in a Westminster bubble detached from the real world. Gordon Brown brought in tax breaks for limited companies only and was then surprised when huge numbers of sole trader plumbers, window cleaners and dog walkers...

It's such a shame the media are being so useless in providing people with clarity re the rules. Perhaps Kuensberg and Peston should have asked relevant questions at the daily briefings that actually related to changes announced in that briefing to seek clarity, rather than forever asking inane...

Plus the risk of kids spreading it to their teachers/classroom assistants, and of course, teaching staff passing it around themselves in cramped staff rooms etc.

Is that just to spread out the guests and cleaners etc? I.e. far better to have 20 people on each floor rather than 40 on every other floor. If there's usually 2 cleaners per floor, then if only half the rooms are occupied, you only need one cleaner per floor, meaning less risk for the cleaner...

Children don't catch/spread it around. Uni students are adults so there's a greater chance of spreading it. Whilst I can certainly see the teaching at Unis starting as normal, maybe with masks in places where students are close together, I'm not so sure about the social activities which may be...

Yes, but you can't bring in rules to cover every eventuality can you? They had to be brought in at a moment's notice as things were happening so fast. Usually, changes to taxes and benefits takes months going through various consultations, committee stages, and finally the HOC itself - there...