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Radio 4,20 Apr 2016,45 mins
Recycling confusion, Matchmaker services, Online estate agents
You and YoursAvailable for over a year
Matchmaker services are different to online dating. They're supposed to be a bespoke service, offering tailored introductions to individuals. Because they're bespoke they can be very expensive. We talk to one woman who used a matchmaking agency. A year and a half later, she's still single but is four thousand pounds poorer. What can you expect from a matchmaking agency? And what can you do when it goes wrong? You and Yours reports. Profits are down at several of the UK's biggest estate agents, while online estate agents like Yopa, Purplebricks or eMoov are reporting rapid gains. Are we moving away from the traditional model of buying or selling our houses? Is online the future? Or are there things we would miss about the old way of doing things? Across the UK, for the first time in 15 years, we're recycling less waste than we did. Confusion over which rubbish goes where is part of the problem and it isn't helped by the fact that every council has its own recycling rules. We go to Hull to hear how residents reacted when the council confiscated 2,000 bins from people who weren't sorting their rubbish properly and look at what is causing councils across the country to act in this way.
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