Lowest pay in Britain

Torridge in Devon has the jobs with the lowest pay in Britain, according to this year's snapshot of earnings from the Office for National Statistics.

Typical pay in Torridge was £348 a week for full time work in April, 3.5% higher than last year.

It compared with £917 in the highest paid area, the City of London - where pay had fallen 5%..

In Scotland, lowest median pay was in East Renfrewshire, at £398 a week, and the highest was £574 in the centre of the North Sea oil industry, Aberdeen.

Highest in Wales was £503 in Flintshire and the lowest: Blaenau Gwent with £382 a week, down nearly 4% on last year.