内容摘要：There will be 18 teams taking part in the race and 108 riders competing.

There will be 18 teams taking part in the race and 108 riders competing.

Davies left school at 16 and worked in his family's haulage business before being elected to what was then the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 and later serving 19 years as MP for Monmouth.Finding himself out of work after the general election, he said he applied for several degree-level jobs outside politics only to be rejected instantly. He believes his failure was down to a lack of qualifications that would be acceptable to an automated CV reader.

He told the BBC: "Clearly when you submit a CV nobody human looks at them at all – and if you have a slightly odd CV, which I have, then you have no chance."Even when he did make progress, he faced an unusual challenge when one multinational organisation asked for details of his last boss.He wrote on LinkedIn: "In one case I got a little further and received a form with the following questions:

"Name of last line manager?' I answered: 'Rishi Sunak'."Job title of last line manager?' I put: 'Prime Minister of the United Kingdom'.

"'Telephone number of line manager?' I have Rishi's number but certainly wasn't going to put it in the box. Result? Rejection!"

He joked that the former PM might not have given him a good reference if he had shared his phone number.A Lincolnshire man has admitted five charges of rape involving a 12-year-old girl.

David Thorne, 22, of New Crescent, Cherry Willingham, near Lincoln, pleaded guilty during a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court.He also admitted three offences of assault by penetration on the same victim.

The court heard Thorne had entered the pleas on the basis that he believed the victim, who cannot be named, was over the age of consent.Jeremy Janes, in mitigation, told the court Thorne accepted meeting the girl in his car on three occasions after contact between them on social media platform Snapchat.