Hard Times are coming to Britain – and to Sky News. In a day of special programming from 0700 on Tuesday 7 September Sky News: Hard Times will ask where the cuts are already biting and find out whether the public is yet engaged. Sky Presenter Dermot Murnaghan, the man who got on his bike to check out the Economic Cycle in 2009, will travel from Scotland to the South West of England to offer a snapshot of how Britain is adjusting to an age of increasing austerity, talking to the businesses bracing themselves for what’s to come.

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