Housing, School bears, TikTok marketing

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Teddy bears are doing their bit to help out in the pandemic. Little bears have been sent as gifts to key workers and, at a school in County Durham, they've been given to pupils to make life more 'bearable'. If you're hoping to move house, there seems to be a bit of queue. There's a big logjam because of Covid according to the property website Rightmove. Research suggests that one in five sales that were agreed in England last July still haven’t completed. It's the first day of half term - a time when people would be heading off on holidays in the UK and abroad. It's also the first day of the new airport hotel quarantine measures for travellers into the UK. We look at figures from the Office of National Statistics to gather what impact Covid has had on the UK tourism industry, and discuss whether it can recover. Lockdowns have helped TikTok become the fastest growing social media platform of all time. It's a place to post and find short, funny, home-made videos. It's also proving to be big business. We speak to Stuart Flint from the app about how lucrative it can be for advertisers. Presenter: Winifred Robinson Producer: Jay Unger