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ONS figures also reveal slide in job vacancies amid rise in employer national insurance contributionsBusiness live – latest updatesThe unemployment rate in the UK has risen to its highest level in almost four years, according to official figures, as the jobs market continues to slow.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate was 4.5% in first three months of this year, up 0.2% on the previous quarter and the highest reading since summer 2021. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/13/uk-unemployment-rises-ons-job-vacancies Author : Heather Stewart Publish date : 2025-05-13 07:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Former broadcaster’s lawyer says NSW department of public prosecutions should now consider whether they want to go to trial with all 35 chargesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSome witnesses have told police that Alan Jones did not engage in “any sexual or inappropriate behaviour”, the former broadcaster’s lawyer has told Sydney’s Downing Centre local court.Jones was excused from Tuesday’s committal hearing but his lawyer, Bryan Wrench, asked for an extension to allow the department of public prosecutions (DPP) to consider whether they want to go ahead with all the charges.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking

Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her house in Leongatha. Follow live updatesMuldoon says she received the image from Dr Veronica Foote at Leongatha hospital on 31 July.The photos show a pastry encasing a brown paste. There are also leftovers of the brown paste in the photo.Dried dehydrated mushrooms, possibly shiitake or porcini ... she stated she purchased them from a Chinese grocery store in Oakleigh or Glen Waverley.All her blood tests had come back and were normal and all her vitals were normal.

Party of four were rappelling down steep gully in North Cascades park when equipment failed, killing three at sceneThree climbers from suburban Seattle were killed in a fall on Sunday when their equipment failed while rappelling down a steep gully in North Cascades national park in Washington state, sheriff’s officials said.A party of four climbers was descending the gully in the area of North Early Winters Spire when the fall happened. Sheriff’s officials presume the cause was an anchor failure but are still investigating. Three of the climbers – ages 36, 47 and 63 – were killed at the scene