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You and Yours: App Happy, Car Subscriptions and Hydrogen Boilers

App Happy, Car Subscriptions and Hydrogen Boilers

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, App Happy, Car Subscriptions and Hydrogen Boilers

Most people are happy to run their life off apps but some can't - what happens to them?

Many people are happy to run their life off apps but some can't - what about them?

Most people are happy to run their lives off apps. Social media, email and shopping are optional but what about health care or dealing with government departments. There may be an app for that but what if you cannot use them? Are millions being excluded?

Car manufacturers are putting more software into cars. In fact they are increasingly becoming computers on wheels. That's great if it makes adding features easy but what if they start charging subscriptions for features already built into the car you bought?

Tired of beach holidays, fed up with lounging around and eating and drinking too much on your annual break? Have you thought of working in your time off? Many do... in the third of his reports on working holidays Bob Walker meets the volunteers digging and repairing a canal.

Summer holidays are underway for many families across the UK from this week. But for working parents finding affordable, good quality childcare is a huge struggle. The cost of childcare and holiday clubs is high and taking time off work isn't always an option as with rising bills. A new survey from Pregnant Then Screwed says that one in eight parents using formal childcare over the summer expect to spend more than £2000 on it.

There have been many schemes and subsidies designed to tempt us away from carbon based fuels. The feed in tariff, the green deal, the renewable heat incentive and many others. The current government favourite is the heat pump and there is a subsidy available to help you fit one. But are heat pumps the answer? Should we not be encouraging people to install hydrogen ready boilers?

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Shari Vahl 
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Kevin Mousley

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