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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Will Bain speaks to British tourism as the sector struggles to recover from the pandemic. Elsewhere, we hear from UK defence at the end of another pivotal week; and we also get the latest on the economy from our expert Friday panel.
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0:45.8 | The UK's busiest airport, Heathrow, has announced that it will be closed all day because |
0:50.2 | of a power outage, with flights already being cancelled and rerouted. |
0:53.9 | We'll have the very latest in just a moment. |
0:56.4 | Also on the programme today, it's been quite the week so far in terms of the economy and the economic backdrop, hasn't it? |
1:01.7 | Major welfare reforms planned, new job figures showing businesses still perhaps reluctant to hire and defence spending in the spotlight again. |
1:09.5 | Plenty then for our panel to get their teeth into. |
1:12.1 | As always on a Friday as we round up the business in Economic Week. |
1:15.8 | And have you been to a tourist attraction lately? |
1:18.2 | New figures show visits are up at UK attractions this year, |
1:22.0 | but it's still well below the pre-pandemic levels. |
1:24.2 | We'll try and work out why. |
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