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You and Yours: Gym membership, Viagogo, Edible flowers

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10/07/2017

Gym membership, Viagogo, Edible flowers

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gym membership, Viagogo, Edible flowers

How group fitness sessions are helping gyms grow their memberships.

Gym memberships are increasing every year. Philip Mills, founder of Les Mills International, talks about why group sessions like Body Pump and Body Attack are driving growth.

New research shows how secondary ticket sites pay google to be top of the search results when an artist's tour is announced. We speak to Ed Sheeran's tour promoter about what Ed and his manager's are trying to do to stop fans being caught out by inflated ticket prices.

Gym memberships are increasing every year- both high end and cheap gyms. We speak to Philip Mills, founder of Les Mills International about why group sessions like Body Pump and Body Attack are driving growth. 

Flowers are sometimes used as garnishes and decorations in food, but now the cooking trend is for those flowers to be edible too. Chef Raymond Blanc tells us why he has opened a gardening school to teach gardeners to grow edible flowers.

People who buy new build houses are not happy that they're tied into paying a service charge to a company to maintain the communal grounds; especially when that maintenance isn't being done to a good standard or even at all. We investigate why builders assign a company to maintain this land and why it isn't just handed to the council.

People who are self employed say they struggle to find homes to rent because letting agents and landlords don't think they are reliable tenants. We speak to people who work for themselves about the problems they face despite earnings good, regular incomes.

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