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You and Yours: Flood Flu, Contactless Cards and Gift Aid

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22/01/2016

Flood Flu, Contactless Cards and Gift Aid

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Flood Flu, Contactless Cards and Gift Aid

Featuring flood flu, contactless cards, gift aid and the Food and Farming Awards.

Consumer news and issues, featuring the health implications following floods, contactless card transactions, short story vending machines, gift aid and the Food and Farming Awards.

After the kind of floods we saw at Christmas, the waters recede, and often the media interest goes with it. The cost to businesses is calculated and the political arguments are thrashed out, but one aspect of the recovery gets less coverage. It's the health implications of having your home, or your place of work flooded. Our reporter Kevin Core has been in Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd. 

Contactless card transactions now account for one in 10 card payments, according to the UK Cards Association. It's so popular with some retailers that they are charging customers for NOT going contactless. 

We are used to vending machines that give you coffee, chocolate and mineral water. Now, in the French city of Grenoble, there are dispensing machines that give you short stories. Eight of them have been installed in places in the city where people often have to wait in queues. Each one distributing short stories for free. 

Your nominations for our category in the Food and Farming Awards have been flooding in. We're looking at the best local food retailers. You've been telling us about the local shops you use that are holding their own against the big supermarkets. 

And are you confused by what Gift Aid is. Has it stopped you donating to the Charity of your choice? Find out more 

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Editor: Chas Watkin.

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