Lifestyle

With established high street names such as Woolworths and Zavvi going into administration after years on the scene, not even traditional employment sectors are immune to the threat of being pushed out and taking their staff with them.

As businesses close, coupled with a surge of workers being fired and trading links become severed, it became increasingly obvious that there simply aren't enough jobs to go around. In at No 7 in 2007 was the state of the NHS.