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Radio 4,22 Dec 2010,57 mins

22/12/2010

You and Yours

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We have the incredible tale of the man who set up a fake airline. The conman duped leading industry professionals into helping him try to start a service from Teeside to London. One man admits he should have smelled a rat when business meetings were held in the local McDonalds. Also, is there a Liquid Petroleum Gas shortage? We investigate concerns from listeners who've emailed to say there's a supply problem, and claims that prices have jumped by 55% in the past year. We hear from the trade association UK Liquid Petroluem Gas. The government's pulled the plug on a project to centralise and modernise Fire Control centres in England. It's the IT part of the project that failed. We speak to Clive Betts MP (Chair of the Department for Communities and Local Government Select Committee) who wants an investigation into how the project went so badly wrong. And Winifred visits a hospice where residents meet children, with the aim of normalising death.

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