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You and Yours: 11/06/2010

11/06/2010

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What do gold bars, prosthetic limbs and knickers have in common? Peter White finds out.

Peter White discusses the weird and wonderful things that you can buy from vending machines, plus new rules for mobile phone roaming-charges and more World Cup PR hype.

As gold bars go on sale from vending machines in the Middle East, and other countries embrace the concept, selling anything from fizzy drinks to prosthetic limbs, why are Brits so wary of shopping from a box?

Plus, thousands of people are heading to South Africa for the World Cup and the school holidays are only a month away, so we assess the best way of using your mobile phone abroad without racking up a massive bill and how will consumers benefit from new EU rules?

And could the Olympic legacy see Lady GaGa and Madonna performing at the East London site?

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