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You and Yours: Moving to the country; Student rent; Lockdown modelling

18/05/2020

Moving to the country; Student rent; Lockdown modelling

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Moving to the country; Student rent; Lockdown modelling

Why more of us want to sell up in the city and move to the country.

Why more of us want to sell up in the city and move to the country, plus the students struggling to pay the rent on their university digs.

Students are struggling financially to pay the rent on their University accomodation that's empty right now. Can they get out of their tenancies early?

Clothing companies like Zara and Asos are sending clothes to models to take pictures at home - with mixed results. 

Camping and Caravan sites are seeing bookings for August and September increase. If we can holiday this year, is the self catering break in the UK the one we can safely have? 

Online property websites say they're seeing more people wanting to up sticks from the city and move to the country. Is lockdown making us realise we want to escape urban life?

And, the dogs trained to sniff out...Japanese Knotweed. 

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Lydia Thomas

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