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You and Yours: 19/05/2011

19/05/2011

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Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. How can the railways offer better value for money?

Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. A key report on the future of the railways; we'll have details. The government promises more allotments and the typewriters helping the blind.

Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. Sir Roy McNulty's long awaited report into the future funding and organisation of the railways is released. It is expected to recommend a shake up of the fares structure and a move from central to local decision making. 

The government say they want to see more allotments where there is demand and believe the new Localism Bill will help reverse a decline that has seen around a five thousand plots being lost every year since 1996.

Typewriters may be a redundant technology but in the developing world they are still helping blind children to get on at school.

One of the big names in electrical retail on the UK high street faces an uncertain future after its parent company signals that it is for sale. 

The second in a four part series looking at the battle to run the West Coast Main Line - we look at the two British companies hoping to clinch the right to run it between 2013 and 2027.

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