内容摘要：Speaking after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met religious leaders in the region, he said: “There is the argument that the police already have the powers to stop the violence.

Speaking after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met religious leaders in the region, he said: “There is the argument that the police already have the powers to stop the violence.

Cutting a client's hair, Kerry explained she could not afford to take on any new apprentices this year and had been forced to reduce the hours of her current 12 apprentices to the minimum.The next step will be to halve the number of apprentices over the next year as their contracts finish, ending up with six by the end of this year.

If the business cannot recover over the next four years, the rest of her 28 staff, who are nearly all local women who became stylists after serving an apprenticeship at the salon, are facing potential redundancy."I'm having to drastically reduce my overall employee numbers to cut costs just to survive," she said."Where are the future hairdressers going to come from if good, employed salons go out of business?"

Kerry added the way the chancellor is treating salons, which overwhelmingly employ women, "totally goes against the objectives of the government" in growing the economy and supporting workers.Part of the pressure is coming from the UK's Value Added Tax (VAT) rules, which do not allow businesses to reclaim tax on staff costs in the same way they can for goods, putting labour-intensive businesses such as hair or beauty salons at a disadvantage.

"If you look at a cafe, one waiter can serve several tables of four customers in the space of an hour and the cafe can reclaim the VAT on all the food and drink they serve," Kerry explained.

"Whereas one salon customer needs attention from the receptionist, the apprentice for hair-washing, and the stylist in that same hour and we can only claim VAT back on a tube of hair colour.""It was overwhelming at the time and I really let myself get in my head during the show."

But Ailish was still proud to have even featured on Glow Up, which has been her dream since she first watched the show aged 14.Having recently finished her degree, she's looking forward to pursuing more of her goals by picking up work on films and in theatres.

And while she may not have got one on series 7, as she starts this new chapter, Ailish asks: "Can I get a Ding Dong?!"at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back