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As the UK tips into recession, what are the prospects for employment and wages? For now the jobless total hasn't risen that much but it is likely to go up when furlough ends; how prepared is the government and economy to cope with any surge in unemployment?

The High Speed 2 rail project linking London to Birmingham and beyond is ramping up work on the line after it received the final go ahead from government and objections were cleared in the courts. What happens when a national infrastructure project lands on your doorstep?

It is not only shoppers that have been moving online - up 13% in the lock down - but businesses too. The UK's second largest digital marketplace- eBay reports that the numbers of new SME businesses joining the platform has nearly quadrupled compared to this time last year.

Top European Hotel brand Accor - they run 265 hotels in the UK such as Ibis and Mercure brands - are offering to rent their rooms out to home workers who are finding it difficult to work from home but who cannot yet return to their offices, but they are entering a competitive market place; so how will it work out?

Consumers fed up with waiting for Tui to compensate them for holidays cancelled because of the pandemic are taking them to court to get their money back.

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Kevin Mousley