Chapters
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Supermarkets
After 20 years of spectacular growth Tesco has finally put a foot wrong and UK profits have fallen by one percent.
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Static Caravans
Once this summer holiday season is over the price of a static caravan will go up by twenty percent. VAT's being imposed on them for the first time.
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Water Pipes Insurance
Some of the biggest water companies in the UK are costing customers a total of £100 million each year by offering unnecessary additional insurance to cover damage to pipes.
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Rocket Lawyers
The two largest American online legal services firms are opening in the UK this year.
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Voice Stress and Call Centres
If you work in a call centre there's a danger that one day your voice will pack up - not surprising if you're talking all day and making yourself heard in a room full of people...
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Voluntarism
The government has been asking local authorities around the country if they'd like to have a deep geological repository for higher level radioactive waste. The consultation period has just ended.
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Living Streets
Two thirds of us walk for less than an hour per week. Tony Armstrong from the charity Living Streets is trying to encourage us to be less sedentary.
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 4Wed 18 Apr 2012 12:00 BBC Radio 4 FM only
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BBC Radio 4Wed 18 Apr 2012 12:04 BBC Radio 4 LW only
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A Week of You and Yours
BBC Radio 4's daily consumer programme with Julian Worricker, Winifred Robinson and Peter White. You...
by Dermot Bolger. A couple risk everything to afford the house of their dreams.