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You and Yours: Sugar Tax, VIP Gambling, Boiler Cover

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19/04/2018

Sugar Tax, VIP Gambling, Boiler Cover

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Sugar Tax, VIP Gambling, Boiler Cover

The sugary scandals our listeners are uncovering following the sugar tax on fizzy drinks.

The sugary scandals our listeners are uncovering following the sugar tax on fizzy drinks. Plus the online bookie's reward schemes that entice gamblers to spend more.

We've reported how problem gamblers are given VIP status by online gambling firms and encouraged to spend more than they can afford. Today we hear how gamblers are entered into reward programmes that earn more points according to how much they spend. Gamblers say this amounts to encouragement to spend ever increasing sums of money.

The sugar tax on fizzy drinks is now in force and manufacturers and retailers have been applying it in a variety of ways. We hear from listeners who have uncovered some sugary scandals.

Shein, Romwe, NewChic, DressLily, SammyDress, ZLAY: these are clothing companies that advertise cheap fashionable clothes on the sidebars of websites. Where are the clothes coming from and how can they produce them at such low prices?

Scottish Power customers taking out boiler insurance say they are still waiting to have their boilers fixed since the cold snap and some are finding they're not covered at all because of clauses in the small print. Is boiler cover ever worth taking out?

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Lydia Thomas.

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