06/04/2009
Consumer issues with Julian Worricker. The latest figures on the organic market; Simon Parkes investigates the working lunch; and plans to move cigarettes under the counter.
Presented by Julian Worriker.
The Soil Association's organic market report says consumers who are committed to buying organic products are appearing to stay loyal. Reporter Simon Parkes is at the launch of the report.
Passengers trying to claim back Air Passenger Duty are being hit by administration charges of up to four times the value of the original tax. Which? Holiday highlighted the problem and we speak to Head of Research, Rochelle Turner.
Local authority waiting lists have been rising year on year but with the recession taking hold, it is predicted that many more people will need social housing. Clare Garrod is one person on the social housing waiting list. She explains how she ended up without a home after her marriage broke down. Also with David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation.
Can rural communities survive an influx of second home owners and how best can the new arrivals live alongside the locals? Kevin Mousley speaks to Paul Rouse, the former chairman of the Association of Second Home owners, asking him for his reaction to the claim that second home owners are over-running pretty rural communities to their detriment.
If the government sticks to its current plans, there will be no cigarettes or other tobacco products on display from 2011 in larger shops and from 2013 in smaller shops. We speak to James Lowman from the Association of Convenience Stores and Prof Gerard Hastings.
Sainsbury's have renamed Pollack 'Colin' - French for cooked pollack - in a bid to promote the fish as a sustainable alternative to cod. It is also getting new packaging inspired by the artist Jackson Pollack, and designed by Wayne Hemingway, the founder of fashion label Red or Dead. We speak to Fred Normandale, President of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations.
Looking at the significance and history of the working lunch, from the provision of food for Victorian mill hands to the works canteen, to the increasingly common practice of lunch being taken at our desks.