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It is common knowledge the likes of doctors and lawyers are paid well – but where are the best-paying places in the UK? Hours and Earnings figures from the Office of National Statistics demonstrate that the cities with the biggest salaries are in this order: London, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Derby, Stirling, Oxford and Cambridge. The performances of ‘Oxbridge’ are based on their wealth of knowledge-based industries. Similarly, Stirling’s earning power is stimulated in part by its university.

A cathedral has been forced to install security equipment after it was targeted three times in a year by metal thieves. The Roman Catholic cathedral in Norwich has put up a camera monitoring system because it has had lead valued at £20,000 stolen from the building. Recently piping has been stolen as well as lead from the roof of the cathedral’s Narthex centre. A spokesman for the spiritual centre said the thefts had caused complications with insurance.

The nights are drawing out and Daylight Saving Time starts at 1am on Sunday, March 25, 2012. Therefore it is time to change the BST or GMT times on all clocks – don’t forget to do this at work as well before the weekend starts! Tensor customers are reminded to please check your WinTA Lite, WinTA Enterprise, WinTA Access Enterprise, WinTA 16, WinTA CS or Tensor.NET systems to make sure that this information is correctly entered, as this will affect the time shown on your Smart Card Clocking Stations.

HeatingSave joined more than 1,500 exhibitors at Ecobuild 2012; the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment. This was held at the ExCel Exhibition Centre in London’s Docklands from Tuesday 20^th March 2012 to Thursday 22^nd March 2012. Ecobuild, the UK’s largest construction event of any kind, hosted a free conference that discussed issues such as how to keep the building industry profitable and remain committed to a low carbon built environment.

Police have a beef with thieves after a herd of 14 cows were stolen from a farm near Reading. The criminals broke into the premises in west Berkshire then loaded the cows into a vehicle before driving off with them, officers have reported. The cattle theft took place at some period between March 4 and March 8.

The national minimum wage will go up to £6.19 an hour in October, the government has announced. Business Secretary Vince Cable said that the decision to put the rate up by 11p an hour and freeze the rate for younger workers marked the “right balance between pay and jobs”. This increase is 1.8% from the current level, which is lower than inflation but in line with the average increase in earnings, which rose by 1.4% over the year to January.

National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower commented after new figures revealed 2.5 per cent of school pupils are given fixed term exclusions annually. She said: "It makes far more sense to invest in keeping young people in school rather than having to get them back on track once they have been excluded, or in the worst cases lost to the system.” She said schools need support and extra resources to manage effectively the behavioural problems of pupils.

Leading politicians were in Scotland to discuss youth unemployment in the UK. Young people particularly have borne the brunt of the economic downturn, with the latest jobless figures showing half of 16 to 24-year-olds are out of work. The National Convention on Youth Employment in Dundee was attended by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. Companies and organisations like John Lewis and Jobcentre Plus were invited to take part.

A robber has terrorised middle England businesses as diverse as petrol stations, bookmakers and shops. In almost all of the robberies the suspect wielded a weapon of some sort. Northamptonshire Police have described him as a “dangerous offender”. They warn that although he has not yet hurt any member of staff, they have been left badly shaken each time. Bookmakers Coral say one of their outlets has been robbed four times in just over four months by the suspect.

Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a scrap metal merchant on Monday morning (March 12, 2012). The gang struck on an industrial estate near Caerphilly in Wales around 8.45am. Two men arrived at the premises in a vehicle and demanded money from the employees present. They got away with a “significant” amount of cash and made off in a grey Vauxhall Astra car. Anyone with information is urged to call 101.