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You and Yours: Mindfulness, High street revival, Fly-tipping

Mindfulness, High street revival, Fly-tipping

08/10/2015

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Mindfulness, High street revival, Fly-tipping

Should we be asking questions about mindfulness techniques?

Some councils are asking retailers and manufacturers to pay the cost of cleaning up after fly-tippers - is that fair?

Mindfulness is a form of meditation based on paying attention to the present. A new report says it's so effective at treating depression that doctors and teachers should be given training in how to teach it. But some research raises questions - how can we be sure it is doing the good we think it is? We visit a school in Cumbria that includes mindfulness on the curriculum and talk to Florian Ruths Dr Miguel Farias who has reservations.

New figures suggest that our high streets are starting to revive - the story of the downturn has been empty shops, as shoppers go online and big retailers consolidate their shops. But there are fewer empty shops around now than at any time since 2010. What sorts of shops are filling those empty space and what does it say about the way we shop now? Samantha Fenwick is live in Bootle where they've turned their vacancy rates around. 

And the tricky balancing act between financial freedom, and protecting vulnerable elderly people from crime. We'll speak to the son of a man who, despite being a consistent victim of fraud, was still lent money by his bank. Where should the line be drawn if a vulnerable person is borrowing money to hand it to fraudsters?

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