Forget London. Dick Whittington has gone to Liverpool, and he's staying put. If you live in northern England, you no longer have to up sticks and head south to get a well paid job in construction. As Building reported last month (24 August, page 12), construction activity has reached a seven-year high and this boom means that demand for quality staff is outstripping supply across the country, forcing up salaries and narrowing the wage gap in the process. In construction, the North-South divide has almost disappeared.
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