hard hat

There is a reason why fresh from all the diplomatic handshakes, Sir Keir was back in the more familiar hi-vis and hard hat announcing defence jobs in Belfast.

The Unite union protested at the SEC in Glasgow, placing 400 yellow hard hats outside the venue where the conference was being held - representing jobs lost by the closure of Grangemouth.

On Livorno Drive, a street in the Palisades overlooking the ocean, dozens of people wearing neon construction vests and hard hats stood by the twisted wreckage of burned homes.

The cleanup begins in the burn zone with EPA contractors in respirators, white suits and hard hats sifting through the rubble of homes and businesses.

At a media preview of the new station on Wednesday morning, work was still going on inside and outside the station by workers in hard hats and hi-vis vests.