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You and Yours: Free boilers, Unwanted paint, Delays in cancer treatment

Free boilers, Unwanted paint, Delays in cancer treatment

25/04/2014

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Free boilers, Unwanted paint, Delays in cancer treatment

An energy provider is suspending its free boiler scheme, and the thieves who steal houses.

Consumer news. British Gas is temporarily stopping its free boiler scheme until the government decides on the future of ECO, and the thieves who steal houses.

A major part of the Government's flagship energy saving programme has been put on hold by the UK's biggest energy supplier. British Gas says it's temporarily stopped taking applications for free boilers under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) because it has met a target one year early.

The killing of three children believed to have been suffering with Spinal Muscular Atrophy has brought a little known condition to national attention; we hear from a Mum about living with the disease.

There are believed to be 40 millions litres of unwanted paint sloshing around in our homes. Many councils won't accept it at their tips so how do you get rid of it?

Four in ten people with cancer say there were delays in their diagnosis and treatment leading to a lesser quality of life.

Fraudsters who took out mortgages on wholly owned homes without their owner's knowledge have been jailed in a £7million fraud.

The man behind the UK's Record Store day says there's life in the event yet despite claims that touts and major music labels have been muscling in distorting its original purpose.

It's claimed that a debt collector charged with collecting some student loans has started taking direct debit payments despite promising not to do so without notifying the debtors.

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