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You and Yours: Changing breakfasts, Water woes, Car cloning

24/02/2020

Changing breakfasts, Water woes, Car cloning

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Changing breakfasts, Water woes, Car cloning

Our changing tastes at breakfast. The businesses despairing at their water service.

Our changing tastes at the breakfast-table. Why the standard of water supply services for some businesses has sunk. And the car cloners evading congestion charges.

When the water regulator Ofwat allowed businesses in England to buy water services from a variety of different suppliers, it was an attempt to bring more competition, and hence lower prices, to the market.  But nearly three years later, significant problems continue with lots of complaints from customers, from poor service to inflated bills and heavy-handed treatment.

Cars fitted with other people's number plates are being used in London to avoid paying the congestion charge.  The number of 'cloned cars', as they are known, has doubled in four years to around 1,700.  How can they be stopped?

What do you say to a child who has to live with a very major problem in their life such as bullying, anxiety or the death of a parent? From this month GPs will be able to refer families with children in that situation to the library, where they can choose from a list of more than 30 books, selected to help. We talk to the author of one of them - Jayde Perkin - who wrote 'Mum's Jumper' about the death of her mother. 

Latest figures suggest we are buying far less breakfast cereal than we used to.  Data from the market research company Mintel suggests there's been an 8 per cent drop in sales of breakfast cereal, compared with 2011.  That's 37,000 tonnes of breakfast cereal in total.   So what are we having for breakfast instead?

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Craig Henderson

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