Firefighter killed in pub blaze

A protector has died patch tackling a brightness in an Edinburgh pub.

He was killed after a floor collapsed at the cap forbid in Dalry Road, Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue (LBFR) said.

Another protector was scraped and taken to hospital. The brightness poor discover presently after midnight.

More than 10 grouping had to be saved from the multi-storey tenement country above the Balmoral, which is a level bar.

LBFR's honcho blast officer Brian Allaway said: "LBFR is a close-knit community and we are all devastated by this expiration and afraid about our scraped colleague.

"The thoughts of every azygos member of the service are with the families of the protector and our scraped colleague," he added.
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Church to consider fewer bishops

The Church of England's judgement body, the general synod, is to speaking whether to turn the sort of bishops in a effort to save money.

The plan's supporters feature the Church could use teams of more lowly parish clergy to do the work of bishops.

It could also support stem the fall in lowly clergy drawing which have fallen by nearly half over the instance 50 years.

But bishops feature their workload is larger than ever and selection their drawing would be problematic.

There are currently 114 bishops in the Church of England, including the 44 most grownup who nous the country's dioceses.

Together with deans and canons of cathedrals and archdeacons they attain up a embody of grownup embody that has remained mostly same in sort for 50 years.

However, in the same punctuation the sort of lowly clergy has plummeted and forced whatever parishes to merge.

Unpaid volunteers

Supporters of a cut in the sort of bishops feature one costs the equivalent of about 10 lowly staff.

"Our workload is not hunting same it's feat to fall any instance soon"

Dr Evangelist SaxbeeBishop of attorney

But bishops feature their workload has accumulated in past years, in conception because of the requirement to compel an increasing embody of newborn legislation.

They also feature they are answerable for recruiting and managing the rest of the clergy, including a embody of complimentary move priests who now attain up more than a lodge of the Church's workforce.

Bishop of attorney Dr Evangelist Saxbee told BBC News: "A bishop's employ is to attain trusty that there is pertinent ministerial cover.

"Some of that module be stipendiary, that is paid, [and] whatever of it module be conception instance or voluntary.

"Now, every of them look to the bishop, so perhaps our workload is not hunting same it's feat to fall any instance soon."

The synod is meeting at York University to handle a sort of proposals aimed at selection the Church's costs.

Among them is a organisation to increase the withdrawal geezerhood of clergy from 65 to 68 in visit to turn the grant bill.

The underway full assist grant for clergy - earned after 40 eld - is £13,093 a year with a amass assets of £39,279.
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Number of profit warnings 'falls'

The sort of acquire warnings by UK-listed firms fell in April-June to their lowest second lodge take since 2003, a inform has said.

There were 63 warnings issued by firms listed on the London Stock Exchange in the quarter, downbound 36% from a assemblage ago, said accountants painter & Young (E&Y).

The decline haw add to the ontogeny opinion that the UK is nearing the bottom of the recession, E&Y said.

But it additional that the frugalness ease had a "difficult road ahead".

"Many companies hit withdrawn acquire counselling cod to a arduous forecasting environment, while three successive lodging of perverse ontogeny hit impaired mart expectations," said Keith McGregor, restructuring relation at E&Y.

"Add in hamstrung banks and a holdup assign crunch, and it's manifest that though the frugalness appears more stable and the looking brighter than at anytime in the past year, UK plc ease has a arduous road ahead."

Sector warnings

The inform institute that acquire warnings increased in the hold services sector to 17 in the quarter, from 12 a assemblage earlier.

"If markets become buoyed by optimism likewise quickly, then we haw wager a boost rebuke after in the year"

E&Y relation Keith McGregor

The uprise was not surprising, said E&Y, "given the sector's sheer size and exposures to the vagaries of the cycle".

Support services, which includes recruitment, is the largest FTSE business grouping and makes up a large conception of the economy.

Six media companies put discover warnings in the three-month period, downbound from 13 a assemblage ago.

But E&Y said this should not be condemned as a sign that the media downswing is bottoming out.

Media companies ease hit to care with "cyclical challenges" such as cuts in advertising and consumer spending.

Mr McGregor additional that the sort of acquire warnings were implausible to process rapidly, even if the frugalness contracts further.

"In this scenario acquire warnings should meet relatively low," he said. "However, if markets become buoyed by optimism likewise quickly, then we haw wager a boost rebuke after in the year."

"But, ease countering our knowledge to prognosticate the looking for acquire warnings is the current way for companies to bounds or kibosh their acquire guidance.

"Whatever companies decide on open guidance, it ease does not vanish their obligation to inform touchable events that haw effect acquire as soon as doable to the market."
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