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Radio 4,15 Feb 2016,45 mins

Student accommodation, Mobile phone contracts, Cheap flights

You and Yours

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Mobile phone companies need to take more responsibility for mistakes they make when people are ending contracts - that's according to Citizens Advice. We talk to a listener who cancelled her contract only to find the company were taking money from her account years later. With numbers of students set to rise from already record rates, decent student accommodation has never been more difficult to find. Big developers are investing billions in the sector, building high end blocks with perks like gyms, wifi, security and in house cinema. These might be nice to live in, but are they affordable and how do they sit within communities? You and Yours investigates. And we take a look at regional airports. Is it right to subsidise them when the aim is to improve cohesion and create jobs? It's a widespread practice across Europe, and makes for cheaper tickets from some airports. But with a new set of subsidised routes about to come on the market we ask how much benefit they are to the consumer - and the taxpayer.

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