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| Wednesday 11th February |
 Listen to You and Yours for Wednesday 11th February
| When is a degree not a degree? When it’s bought from a petrol station. And Tam Dallyell, the Father of the House, shares his passion for bee keeping.
VW CD PLAYERS
We get to the bottom of a problem which is driving VW owners round the bend. Why the CD player in their car will play some compact disks but not others. Matt Phillips from the British Phonographic Industry and Paul Bucket from VW explain how copy protected CDs are the problem.
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WORKING CHILDREN
22 children aged 16 and under were injured at work last year and it’s thought that other accidents probably went unreported. The rules governing the employment of children under 16 are complex and often ignored. Today the better regulations taskforce is calling for them to be simplified. Simon Petch from the Better Regulation Task Force and Margaret Berry, who is an Independent Environmental Health Officer, explain why.
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FLOWER WARS
There’s only three days left to organise your Valentine flowers. Something which has become easier since the supermarkets got in on the act. However the small independent flower shops argue that theirs is a specialist service.
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INSPECTION
OFSTED has announced that it plans to change the way it inspects schools. It will now only give 4 days notice of a forthcoming inspection instead of several weeks. So should other inspecting bodies change their approach and give less notice to, for example, voluntary health care services, independent hospitals, even cosmetic surgery clinics?
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UNIVERSITY
Did you know that many British Universities set up franchise courses overseas? It’s one of the ways that universities make money and it allows foreign students to receive UK degrees. But how well is the practise governed? And is the quality of the teaching truly up to the standards demanded in the UK? Prof Roger Waterhouse the Vice chancellor of Derby University, Nichola Channon from the Quality Assurance Agency and Alan Smithers the Professor of Education at the University of Liverpool discuss the pros and cons.
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GIFT AID
Putting money into a collecting tin or sponsoring a friend to run a marathon may be laudable but there’s a much better way of giving to charity. Vicki Pulman is from the Charities Aid Foundation explains how Gift Aid and the payroll giving schemes work.
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HONEY
When Tam Dalyell stands down as the father of the House of Commons, he will return to his first love – beekeeping. He tells us why and Laurie Keys, who runs a business packing honeys imported from all over the world, explains the economics.
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 This week we sought the answer to how an ancient variety of apple – the Hen's Turd apple – got it’s name? Tom Croll offers this suggestion – "Was it a seedling which grew from chicken muck?", he wonders. It sounds like we don’t have a definitive conclusion on that yet…What do you think? Email us here.
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| PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES |
 Liz Barclay:
Liz Barclay has presented You and Yours since 1998 ...more info |
 Winifred Robinson:
Winifred Robinson joined the You and Yours team in 2001 ...more info |
 John Waite:
John Waite has presented You and Yours and Face the Facts since 1986 ...more info |
 Peter White:
Since 1995 Peter White has been the BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent ...more info |
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