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You and Yours: Care Revenge Evictions, Energy Bills, Nike Bots

Care Revenge Evictions, Energy Bills, Nike Bots

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Care Revenge Evictions, Energy Bills, Nike Bots

Revenge evictions in care homes. The return of cheaper energy deals. Nike's bot fightback.

The care home residents getting evicted if their relatives complain. Will cheaper, fixed rate energy deals soon be back on the market? What Nike is doing to combat bots.

We return to a story we've been reporting on for many years -  how people in care homes are sometimes given notice to leave or threatened with eviction if a relative complains about poor care. Last week, we examined new research from Kings College, London, that nearly 6,000 people were given notices to leave care homes last year, affecting one in 70 residents in care homes. Today, we investigate more complaints from our listeners. We also speak to Helen Wildbore, director of the charity, the Relatives and Residents Association, and Mike Padgham, Managing Director of St Cecilia's Care Group in North Yorkshire.

Energy analysts are predicting that the long term, fixed rate energy deals which all but disappeared after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, might be about to make a comeback. With wholesale prices now stabilising,  the analyst Cornwall Insight, says we could see energy firms finally start bringing back fixed-rate deals as soon as July.
Obviously energy price falls can't come soon enough for millions of people who've struggled through this last winter. We speak to Amy Appleyard, a listener, about how she's been managing her bills, and Richard Nuedegg from the price comparison site, Uswitch.

We've been reporting a lot on what online retailers are doing to combat the use of bots, automated computer programmes that can be used to hoover up products at lightening speed, so they can be sold on later at a profit. Nike has long been a target for bots. It's just revealed that its Sneakers platform where the most sought-after, limited edition shoes are sold, gets nearly 12 billion bot submissions every month. But Nike says it's now having a 98 percent success rate in blocking them using new security systems. 



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