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You and Yours: Green Deal, Empty Shops, Loneliness

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12/12/2014

Green Deal, Empty Shops, Loneliness

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Green Deal, Empty Shops, Loneliness

Another Green Deal offer is snapped up, more empty shops and why is loneliness a UK issue?

A £24m Green Deal offer to improve your home is snapped up in a little over 24 hours, how? Plus empty shop hotspots, and why is the UK the loneliness capital of Europe?

We ask how a £24 million Green Deal offer was snapped up in a little over 24 hours

We are on a high street where empty shops have been standing unwanted for 3 years or more.

Why does a new Eurostar route to the South of France take an extra HOUR at least to get back to London?

How a plan to change big businesses over their VAT bills could force small firms over the edge.

We ask why the UK is the loneliness capital of Europe.

Why people with hearing problems are at a loss to explain a decision to limit them to ONE hearing aid.

And what music would you choose to play in the background of your operation?

PRESENTER PETER WHITE

PRODUCER PETE WILSON.

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