Stealing Addresses, Self-Build Struggles and Solar Panels

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Our mobile phones contain more vital information about our lives than ever before The Financial Times Consumer Editor Claer Barrett takes us through the nightmare of repairing the damage in the days and weeks after her phone was plucked from her hands in the street. Criminals increasingly are using other people's identities to establish betting accounts. We hear from a You & Yours listener who checked her credit file one day and discivered she had nine such accounts in her name- how was that allowed to happen? There was a surge last year in the numbers of people fitting solar panels to their homes but after 14 years of subsidies and incentives it remains a niche. What will it take for solar to go mainstream in the UK? More people want to build their own home but fewer are getting the chance. Why is a new law aimed at making it harder for criminals to exploit addresses failing?