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Radio 4,26 Jun 2024,53 mins

How Tickets Changed, Pub Closures, 'Essentials' Car Insurance

You and Yours

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You & Yours fraud reporter Shari Vahl did her first 'tickets' story 16 years ago when Rebecca Adlington's Mum was scammed over tickets to see her daughter swim at the Beijing Olympics. The same thing happened earlier this month to the parents of a GB swimmer preparing for the Paris Olympics. How has the business of buying tickets changed in the meanwhile? The insurance industry's answer to soaring motor premiums is to sell comprehensive insurance but stripped of many of the features motorists have become used to; do insurers need to make extra effort to make sure consumers know what they are buying? The strange tale of the dead man and his ever changing credit score. Pubs have been closing down for years but there has been an especially large spike in closures this year, why is that and what is the future of the 'local'? The number of cancelled trains rose last year but as a change in the way the railways are run is due whoever wins the General Election, is train travel in as bad a state as it is often portrayed? PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON PRODUCER: KEVIN MOUSLEY

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