13/04/2011
Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. Could the annual MOT on your car become a thing of the past?
How you'll soon be able to pick up legal advice alongside your newspapers and stationery.
And how one independent fashion retailer is coping with the downturn on the high street.
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Southern Cross
Southern Cross – the company owns 750 care homes across the UK – it’s in financial trouble and now its chairman has resigned. We ask what it might mean for residents.
Duration: 06:33
Mobile Homes
People living in mobile homes say they are being bullied by exploitative site owners and changes to the law won’t make much difference. We get a response from the Housing Minister.
Duration: 10:42
Mobile Homes
People living in mobile homes say they are being bullied by exploitative site owners and changes to the law won’t make much difference. We get a response from the Housing Minister.
Duration: 10:42
Legal Services
This summer hundreds of WH Smiths stores will start offering legal services – ahead of the Legal Services Act. What will it mean for consumers?
Duration: 05:43
MOT Changes
The Transport Secretary Philip Hammond on changing the MOT test and opening motorway hard shoulders to ease congestion.
Duration: 08:34
Clothes Retailer
How are independent clothes stores adapting now that the retail boom is over.
Duration: 07:33
Washing Powder
The consumer products giants Unilever and Procter & Gamble have been fined for fixing washing powder prices in eight European countries.
Duration: 02:51
Jersey Weather
Can Jersey really claim to be the warmest place in the British Isles?
Duration: 05:44
Broadcasts
- Wed 13 Apr 2011 12:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 FM
- Wed 13 Apr 2011 12:04´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 LW