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You and Yours: Store First, Students gambling, M&S knickers

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23/02/2018

Store First, Students gambling, M&S knickers

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Store First, Students gambling, M&S knickers

Mis-sold a pension? Try the claims company run by the man who put you there?

Consumer news and issues. Shari Vahl investigates the latest on investors who put their pensions into Store First and the claims company run by the man who put them there.

We have the latest on Store First - the company where people invested their pension pots in store pods. Those pods are now valued at zero. We hear about the man who sold Store First to his clients, and is now contacting them offering to help them claim back their mis-sold pension pots through his claims company..

Two in three students are gambling according to the Gambling Commission. We speak to a student who was made a VIP without any affordability check.

Penzance in the far west of Cornwall is officially the UK's first plastic-free town.  We speak to residents about how they're trying to achieve it.

Campaigners have been calling for more regulation for people administering fillers for cosmetic surgery like lip fillers. The government is launching a new register that will list qualified practitioners.

And, Marks and Spencer has very loyal customers - especially for its underwear. But some pant-wearing women are baffled by the retailer's decision to change the style of their favourite knickers. You and Yours has fought their corner for knicker reinstatement - has it worked?

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Lydia Thomas.

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