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National Living Wage comes into force

More than a million low-paid workers across the UK are receiving a pay rise today, with the introduction of the National Living Wage.
Paid at Β£7.20 an hour it works out an annual increase of around Β£900 per year for full-time workers.
Joanna Gosling spoke to June O'Sullivan, who owns the Early Years Foundation and runs 32 nurseries across London, Jobeda Ali, the chief executive of Three Sisters Care which is a home care agency in London and Essex, Richard Barry, who has two jobs which both pay the minimum wage and Sheridan Swinson, who runs Aardvark Books and Cafe in Bucknell in Shropshire.

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