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You and Yours: Car Charging, Garment Workers and Fake Tickets

22/03/2021

Car Charging, Garment Workers and Fake Tickets

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Car Charging, Garment Workers and Fake Tickets

When will the electric car charging network be fit for purpose?

When will the electric car charging network be good enough to support the expansion in electric cars and does the garment industry need a regulator?

MPs say the government's Green Homes Grant policy has been bungled and needs an overhaul if there's to be any hope that the UK will meet its emissions reduction targets from homes.

With the days of driving fossil fuelled cars numbered, is the charging network for electric vehicles keeping pace with demand - and how will it cope in future? Adrian Keen  CEO of fast charging company InstaVolt gets us up to speed.

With offices re-opening again soon  how many workers will return? Many companies are preparing to ask some of their workers , and in some cases all of them, to work from home. How will that be once the novelty wears off?

There's been a boom in visitors to gardening centres as the lockdown restriction on welcoming friends into them ends in a week. Boyd Douglas-Davies from the Horticultural Trades Association talks us through  what we are buying and the transformative nature of the last 12 months.

Rail cards are popular ,especially with 'seniors' and with an enormous task facing operators to tempt folk back onto the tracks;  why are they refusing to refund or extend the validity of railcards that holders have been unable to use in the lockdowns?

Beware! There are ticket touts about and they are getting even sneakier using popular second-hand website Depop to dupe fans into buying tickets that don't exist.

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