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You and Yours: Power vouchers, bookshop revival and train fares

Power vouchers, bookshop revival and train fares

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Power vouchers, bookshop revival and train fares

Strikes and overcrowded and expensive trains are driving passengers back onto the roads.

Troubles on trains are driving passengers back onto the roads - will they return? And some vouchers to help us pay our energy bills expire on Friday - why are so many unclaimed?

Some vouchers sent out to people who pay for energy using cash are due to expire on Friday with millions of pounds worth still unclaimed - why is that?

Book sales are up and the future is looking healthier for independent bookstores with 42 new ones opening in the last year. Why are they bucking the trend on the high street?

Yellow sticker foods in supermarkets have become much sought after in the cost of living crisis… usually the cut-price items close to sell by dates are stashed higgledy-piggledy at the back of the store, but Tesco is unveiling a new yellow label section to reduce the stigma and make them easier to find. 

Public charging points for EV's have taken another battering after long queues waiting to charge were posted on social media over Christmas, what are the prospects of the network improving this year and if you can't charge at home should you even bother? 

Troubles on the train network and rising ticket prices have proved the tipping point for some people who are jumping in their cars to commute instead. Will the train companies ever get them back?

And an event billed as inclusive proved to be less so for a disabled fan who went to RuPaul's Drag Con in London last weekend. Activists have been campaigning and compiling guides for disabled people for decades, but how far has access improved?

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