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Wake Up to Money: 21/12/2010

21/12/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - Wake Up to Money, 21/12/2010

Arctic conditions mean major travel problems across parts of the UK look set to continue.

Cold conditions mean travel problems across the UK look set to continue and unemployed teenagers could be left without the support they need as a scheme to help them is cut short.

News and views from the business world with Stephanie McGovern and Jeremy Naylor.

Bitterly cold arctic conditions mean the major travel problems seen across many parts of the UK over the last few days look likely to continue. The severe weather is causing considerable disruption to road, rail and air networks and is affecting many suppliers' ability to make deliveries - particularly to more remote areas. We talk to David Learmount, operations and safety editor for Flight Global about who is to blame, and ask James Crask of PWC, who advises companies on Business Continuity Planning, about whether this is a civil emergency. 

Unemployed teenagers could be left adrift without the support they need because a scheme to help them is being cut short, according to a group of MPs. The programme hears from Tony Hawkhead, Chief Executive of Groundwork UK - one of the major providers of the Future Jobs Fund.

And could taxpayers have made more money from bailing out the UK's banks? The National Audit Office thinks we could have done if the government had set higher fees for the giant multi-billion toxic asset insurance scheme for them. Banking analyst Ralph Silva reminds us how the scheme works and who uses it.

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