AUDIO NEWS: Police raid training centre in CSCS card crackdown and graduates look to re-train for the trades

Police raid training centre in CSCS card crackdown, white collar workers switch to the trades and pensioner £60,000 better off after builders find stash of ancient coins

Four men have been arrested following a police raid on an independent safety testing centre.

The arrests followed a tip off from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) that the centre was accepting payment to help people pass safety tests and get CSCS cards.

Officers from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary’s Economic Crime unit also seized electronics and cash, in raids in Winchester and Southampton.

Detective Inspector Jamie Johnson warned that anyone helping people to fraudulently pass these tests puts not just the subject, but “those working around them at serious risk of harm”.

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More office workers are ditching their jobs to join the trades, as artificial intelligence threatens their long term career prospects, claims an expert from King’s College London.

Bouke Teeselink told the Daily Star that they were “seeing a shift away from more AI-exposed occupations, especially white-collar work.”

According to the economics lecturer, the traditional career pipeline where graduates get roles to develop their career is disappearing due to AI.

Chris Claydon, boss with JTL Training said that white collar workers retraining for the trades is “absolutely” on the rise.

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A pensioner is now £60,000 grand better off after builders discovered a stash of ancient coins under his house.

The 200 coins, dating back to the reign of Henry VII were sold at auction last week and fetched more than twice their pre-sale estimate.

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