Shane Daly Butz is determined to use the World University Games as a spring board to kick start his football career.

UK workers’ pay growth has slowed to its weakest rate in six months, despite record employment, adding to the Bank of England’s dilemma of whether to raise interest rates for only the second time since the global financial crisis.

The number of people in work in Britain fell by the most in more than two years in the three months to September, a sign that a Brexit slowdown may be taking its toll on the economy’s strong run of job creation writes William Schomberg and Estelle Shirbon.