Stephen Fairclough BBC News BBC Paul Lewis is accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife A Swansea man accused of conspiring to have his estranged wife murdered paid £1,500 to a friend to hire a “hitman”, a court has heard. Paul Lewis, 54, from Fishmarket Quay, Swansea, and Dominique Saunders, 35, also from...
BBC Listen to this article on BBC Sounds We are driving at speed through the green hills of rural Hertfordshire. Through the passenger seat window, large elegant houses flash by. Each front lawn is neat, each hedgerow well-kept. It looks like England from a storybook – but this part of the country is actually on...
UK companies are holding back on hiring or are not replacing departing workers, sending job vacancies tumbling, official figures suggest. The number of available jobs fell by 63,000 between March and May while the unemployment rate ticked higher. “There continues to be a weakening in the labour market,” said Liz McKeown, director of econonic statistics...
A new study confirms what locals and environmental activists across the Gulf South and beyond have said for years: Black, Brown and Indigenous workers do not benefit equitably from jobs offered by the petrochemical industry despite their communities often bearing the brunt of its pollution. In Louisiana, for example, residents and activists say jobs promised...