25 August 2006: John Waite investigates claims that a company failed some of the most vulnerable people placed in its care. Elderly people, incapacitated by illness, and counting on others to help them to cope. They are residents in homes run by Four Seasons Healthcare. One of Britain's biggest care home providers which boasts it offers "high quality care". But that’s not what the families interviewed for the programme say they have experienced. Listen again Transcript
18 August 2006: John Waite investigates Britain's biggest retail chain Tesco and the way its critics claim it bends and on occasion even breaks planning law in the building of some of its new stores. John visits one community in which a superstore was built almost twenty per cent bigger than planning permission allowed. In other cases he hears how the retailer has frustrated local authorities with its attempts to overturn planning restrictions. Listen again Transcript
11 August 2006: Face the Facts investigates the collapse of a property company which left small businesses, landlords and some of Britain 's largest pension funds with losses running into millions of pounds. Although backed up by a glossy brochure claiming it had millions in the bank - John Waite reveals the truth behind a business based as much on fiction as fact. Listen again Transcript
4 August 2006: Government figures show Britain’s ports dredge and dump at sea up to 50 million tonnes of sand to provide a safe navigational channel for ships. But environmental groups claim the activity is responsible for eroding stretches of our coastline and threatening homes with destruction. In this edition, John Waite heads to Montrose in north east Scotland and talks to residents who blame dredging for the erosion of their prized beach and links golf course. But is this a case of fishermen’s tales and local folklore, or scientific fact based on hard evidence? Listen again Transcript
28 July 2006: John Waite investigates the legacy of the 1960s building boom for those who did the spadework. Thousands of Irish labourers came here hoping to escape grinding poverty but ended up destitute in old age. Many are homeless and have no right to a state pension as they worked for cash in a system known as "the lump". John asks who benefitted from the system and as the UK embarks on another construction frenzy, hears concerns that a new wave of migrant workers, this time Eastern Europeans, could share the fate of the Irish. Listen again Transcript
21 July 2006: John Waite investigates the world of immigration and the thousands of people who want to come to Britain legitimately, with proper residency status. Many need to turn to immigration advisers to deal with their complex cases. John goes on the trail of a Glasgow-based advisor who charges his foreign and sometimes vulnerable clients for his services and investigates what they get for their money. Listen again Transcript
